If you are an avid Google Reader user (like me) you must be surely be “sharing” items that you read, for you or for your audience; in my case, you can see my recent “shared items” in the sidebar at the right side of this screen.
But can you export these shared items to a file? Google Reader does not allow you to do that from the interface, but you can use the URL below to do that. Just replace {USER_ID_HERE} by the ID of your user ID (it might require your Google authentication), and you’ll get the last 10′000 items that you shared in the form of a long Atom XML file, that you can download and store.
Update, 2009-11-06: The URL has changed (thanks to Jordan Peacock for the heads-up!); try this URL instead now:
Update, 2009-11-06: Check out this project on Github, which has a set of scripts to help you download your shared items to HTML pages in your own computer for later reference.
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4 Comments
12.25.2008
This is great. I was trying to do a best of list, and needed the list from Google. Thanks for the post
11.05.2009
Whenever I try this, I get:
Invalid stream name.
Has this broken since this post?
11.06.2009
Probably… Will try again to see if I can make it work.
11.06.2009
Indeed Jordan! I’ve updated the post with the new URL. Thanks!!
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