Comments on: Byline Bypass? http://www.zx81.org.uk/computing/opinion/byline-bypass.html Photography, opinions and other random ramblings by Stephen Darlington Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Milo Bird http://www.zx81.org.uk/computing/opinion/byline-bypass.html/comment-page-1/#comment-51361 Milo Bird Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:17:44 +0000 http://www.zx81.org.uk/?p=522#comment-51361 Hello, I'm the developer of Byline. As you say, Byline is using Google Reader's unofficial API. Google could change this API at any time, forcing me to update Byline in order to maintain compatibility. However, this API has remained stable for several years now, and is in use by quite a few web, desktop, and mobile applications. I haven't reverse engineered the API myself, but others have, in great detail, and apparently with Google's tacit approval. If you search for the source of the idea that Google is about to publish an official API, you'll find that it goes back to late 2005. There has been no new information on the subject (that I can find) since that time. Cheers, Milo Hello,

I’m the developer of Byline.

As you say, Byline is using Google Reader’s unofficial API. Google could change this API at any time, forcing me to update Byline in order to maintain compatibility.

However, this API has remained stable for several years now, and is in use by quite a few web, desktop, and mobile applications. I haven’t reverse engineered the API myself, but others have, in great detail, and apparently with Google’s tacit approval.

If you search for the source of the idea that Google is about to publish an official API, you’ll find that it goes back to late 2005. There has been no new information on the subject (that I can find) since that time.

Cheers,

Milo

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