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Automate Google Reader

August 4th, 2008 · by David Bradley >> 2 Comments

I add a lot of RSS newsfeeds to my Google Reader account. But, if you choose Google as your subscribe option you are usually presented with two choices: Add to Google Homepage or Add to Google Reader. I never use Homepage, so I added a Greasemonkey script (Auto Add Feed to Google Reader, it’s cleverly named) to my Firefox install to skip this page.

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  • Slartibartfarst // Sep 1, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    You might be able to take advantage of this comment as a process improvement and for greater efficiency in subscribing to feeds or selecting individual website pages to your feed (adding notes at the same time, if wanted).

    I use Firefox with Better Gmail 2 and Better GReader from lifehacker. In my bookmarks, I have two bookmarks at the top of my tree, each with java script in the “location” field of the properties. I got both of these from Google Reader help somewhere; the “Subscribe…” is also referenced in Reader’s Settings|Goodies.

    1. Subscribe…
    javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain=’http://www.google.com’;if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement(’script’));void(z.src=’http://www.google.com/reader/ui/subscribe-bookmarklet.js’);void(b.appendChild(z));}else{location=’http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)}

    Note in Reader
    javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain=’http://www.google.com’;if(b&&!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement(’script’));void(z.src=’http://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js’);void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}

    Hope this is of use to someone.

  • David Bradley // Sep 2, 2008 at 9:02 am

    Can you explain what these do, please? My process is simply to click the rss icon in the address of any sites to which I wish to subscriber, I have Google set as default in Firefox to read RSS, and the Greasemonkey script auto loads Reader and adds. Are your js links quicker?

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