Hack Google Reader: Unofficial API docs released

Here's a bit of trivia: Google built an RSS API first and then built Google Reader on top of it to show what could be done with the API. Though Google claim to be working on releasing their own API docs soon, developer Niall Kennedy got a head-start on them and released his own Google Reader API docs. Kennedy describes how to use the simple REST API to retrieve any feed in Atom format, get a user's subscription list (you need the correct password, of course), and read and tag items. Google Reader's project manager Jason Shellen wrote in to Niall to confirm the accuracy of docs and provide the above bit of trivia and suggest that Google's official docs might be available inside of a month. Either way, I hope we see some cool Google Reader hacks as a result.

Tags: api, atom, google, google reader, GoogleReader, hack, rss, unofficial