Personal sandbox for (Yahoo!) Hackday at London while 16-17th june 2007.
Summary:
- Notes
- Experiments
- Get OPML of our favorites feeds from My Yahoo! (+source-code)
- Parse OPML to create PHP array with feed's URLs
Try xplore your My Yahoo! to share with your friends
- Build My Yahoo! Mobile edition (aborted while Hackday)
Try mYahoo feedriver
- Build My Yahoo! Wall of photos featuring Flickr
Try mYahoo! Wall feat. Flickr
- Ressources
Notes:
- See unofficial wiki where I submited some ideas
- My Yahoo! news reader mobile edition (like Y!MobActus XHTML french mobile site),
and build stranger edition (for PC) with LiFE-Line technology,
- Yahoo! Answers or Mail enhanced screensavers with "Jump jump Liam" platform (screensaver build with a Flash movie),
- API for Yahoo! 360 blast or Messenger statut.
- Contact me at: dzolivier - hackday @ yahoo . fr
- I'm in London friday to monday :o)
- Discover my unofficial screensavers dedicated to Yahoo! here (on SourceForge)
- Jump jump Liam, mascot of Yahoo! Mail Beta
- Thank Yahoo!, where Y!M Plus mascots thank Yahoo! teams around the world
- Allez les bleus, made to support soccer's french team while 2006 championship
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Finish My Yahoo! Wall of photos, see last experiment :o)
Use your login and password to obtain feeds you setup on your "My Yahoo!", download feed's news, and search Flickr related photos which build "Wall of photos".
Experiments:
Quest 1: get OPML of our favorites feeds from My Yahoo!
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Discover how to use Yahoo! BBAuth API.
I try QuickStart, naturlich ;op
It's seem can't login to Yahoo! Photos server with french account :o(
- Could I use BBAuth to download our OPML from My Yahoo! ?
Try now ! (build with Quickstart ;o)
Shit ! Not work... I may use Snoopy HTTP client :o(
- Cross my fingers I could use Snoopy to login on My Yahoo! and download my OPML
What's going on ? (with my account)
Failed ! :o|
- New way with Curl to login on Yahoo! Homepage to get cookies. And next, use these cookies to get OPML.
Please give my My Yahoo! OPML
Ca marcheeeee !!! YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS ! :o) .oO(Thank to Alfred Poirier from Yahoo! France)
Download PHP source-code
Quest 2: parse OPML to create PHP array with feed's URLs
- Make myself, because I wouldn't like use XPath, I use only RegEx and keep OPML into "cache" box... Which is required for next step ;o)
Quest 3: build My Yahoo! Mobile edition
- First step is to check if mYLastRSS's "max_execution_time" property work fine while build hudge feedriver. Try with your account bellow...
- Prefer work on it next time...
Quest 4: build My Yahoo! Wall of photos featuring Flickr
Use your login and password to obtain feeds you setup on your "My Yahoo!", download feed's news, and search Flickr related photos which build "Wall of photos".
Ressources:
- I prefer use my PHP class mYLastRSS fetcher instead of Pipes...
More powerful, and enhanced to fix Yahoo!'s feeds bad formed :o|