Since I last blogged about Bloglines‘ new REST style web services, I finally had a chance to sit down and code a little application to scratch my itches.
What then, is my itch? Bloglines is probably one of the best feed aggregator that I have ever used. And because it is web-based, my subscriptions are centrally managed – useful when you are in front of different computers everyday. Bloglines only needs to fetch the RSS/RDF/ATOM feed once every hour regardless number of subscribers, so it reduces bandwidth usage of the news sites and makes it scale better.
However, Bloglines, the web-based application itself, heavily depends on Javascript. It would not be an issue when a decent GUI web browser is used, however I am doing half of my daily reading/browsing on this text-based browser, which not surprisingly it lacks Javascript support.
Thanks to the introduction of Bloglines web service, my little script Bloglines2HTML was born.
Moved!
I have moved this project to my new programming/Internet blog — Bloglines2HTML (17 Nov 2005).
Wow! That’s exactly what I’m looking for and what I was going to write myself, to read my subs offline on a Palm.
Have you tried simply doing:
http://www.bloglines.com/mobile
??
Works well in elinks for me.
Scott,
Yes the new Bloglines mobile interface works in text browser as well. However another use for Bloglines2HTML is downloading all your feeds, and then I can load them into my PDA to read on the road. EVDO/3G is still too expensive here in Australia, so it works well for me…
Yep, if you’re trying to slurp it all down into a PDA, the ./mobile link may not exactly work. Although, who knows… ‘wget’ combined with bloglines.com/mobile just might be pretty close…