nnrss through Google Reader (was: Gnus' speed)

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:07:00 +0800 CHENG Gao <chenggao@gmail.com> wrote: 

CG> nnrss is really a headache, esp. when I have many subscriptions. Gnus is
CG> slow in comparison with other dedicated RSS readers. I use NetNewsWire
CG> and can see the speed gap. I am trying to find a solution to make RSS
CG> reading offline. 
...
CG> Another candidate is nntp//rss (http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/). But
CG> its download link is b0rked.

I use it and have the JAR file.  It's OK, but has trouble with some
feeds.

I'd really like to use Google Reader.  Its protocol has been
reverse-engineered here:

http://code.google.com/p/pyrfeed/wiki/GoogleReaderAPI 

in case anyone is interested.  The API may change before release so any
code written may have to be redone.  Looks like the easy way to get
all the current headlines is:

https://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/-/state/com.google/reading-list?xt=user/-/state/com.google/read

according to one comment.

This would be a nice mix of nnkiboze and nnrss, but all the work is done
at the Google server and you're not killing the host of the RSS feed
with repeated requests.  You can get the headlines for a specific feed
only, too.

Ted