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I am trying to retrive a single selected item from the google reader api. Is there an api call I can make to get an item by Id or do I have to access that items feed and get it from there?

Luke Lowrey
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  • Hi! Right now I can't use method described by Mihai Parparita. I get 405 error response. Did google deny this? Do you know any other methods? Thank you! – Eugene Nacu Jan 30 '11 at 21:51
  • @Evgeny, as of today, it does seem to work. Just make sure to fetch that url using POST and not GET. – Juan A. Navarro Mar 07 '11 at 14:11

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You can use POST to http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/stream/items/contents using i= as the input (you can repeat the i= parameter to get multiple item contents).

Here's a sample curl invocation:

$ curl -d "i=tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1bab1bbe8a8ad82f" http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/stream/items/contents
{"direction":"ltr","id":"feed/http://googlereader.blogspot.com/atom.xml","title":"Official Google Reader Blog","description":"News, tips and tricks from the Google reader team.","self":[{"href":"http://www.google.com/reader/api/0/stream/items/contents"}],"alternate":[{"href":"http://googlereader.blogspot.com/","type":"text/html"}],"updated":1275437593,"items":[{"crawlTimeMsec":"1275437593933","id":"tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/1bab1bbe8a8ad82f","categories":[],"title":"Folder and tag renaming",

The output format is JSON by default, you can add a output=atom parameter to switch it to Atom.

Mihai Parparita
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  • I used to work on Google Reader :) But this is how search and sort by magic work (they get a list of item IDs, and then fetch their content). Peeking at the HTTP requests while doing those operations in the UI would reveal this request. – Mihai Parparita Jul 29 '10 at 20:03