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Marcos Weskamp
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Can't get appKeys in V2 API working :(
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Is there any chance that with all recent changes to the api appkeys are not working properly?
For example, when trying to make a request to the topics api, I'm calling:

http://api.postrank.com/v2/topic?appKey={ mywebsiteurl.com } &id={ userid } &tags={ tags } &level=1&num=10&start=0

But I always receive back a 400 with "error": "Invalid application key, please check the API documentation."

I've tried appKey with values like "www.mywebsiteurl.com", or the Consumer Key I get after registering for an API key, with no luck. (mywebsiteurl.com is just an example, I'm using my real app url for that, of course).

I'm suspecting that not only I have the wrong api key, but also in the docs there's a mention to a "user_hash"

http://api.postrank.com/v2/topic/{user hash}/{tags}?appkey=postrank.com/example

[ http://www.postrank.com/developers/ap... ]

that doesn't get mentioned anywhere else in the Documentation, as well as not existing in the results of a getUserInfo call.

Would it be possible to post a more detailed example on how I should be creating this call ? The current docs are not really helping!

Thanks!

.marcos

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VIEILLE last replied on July 03, 2009 12:43
Andrei
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The Top Posts widget is not showing the latest posts
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The Top Posts widget is not showing the latest posts. It's seems that it is not synchronized with the feed.

http://azagorneanu.blogspot.com/

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Melanie Baker (Official Rep) last replied on July 02, 2009 13:18
curiousstranger
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Firefox 3.5 support
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Firefox 3.5-RC1 is out, which means a real release is not too far away. Will the extensions be working with 3.5 anytime in the near future? Thanks!

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curiousstranger last replied on June 26, 2009 04:27
Ed
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Inaccurate feed_id's returned in some cases
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Here's an example from my shell: curl "http://api.postrank.com/v2/feed/info?appkey=postrank.com/example&id=http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss". This returns a feed_id of 18690, but look up to the xml field in the output and you see this is actually the /cnn_us.rss feed, not the one requested. The problem is that when you then try a feed-based postrank query and have the wrong feed_id, the rank always comes back as 1. How does one get accurate feed_id's? Does something need to be fixed on your end? Thanks!!

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Trevor Creech (Employee) last replied on June 25, 2009 22:23
curiousstranger
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Uploads stalling
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Firefox 3.5-RC1 is out, so a real release is in the not too distant future. Any idea when the extensions will support 3.5? Thanks!

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curiousstranger last replied on June 17, 2009 17:12
chillu
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Do you throttle API calls?
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Due to an error in our application, we were making a lot more calls to your feed API than necessary (>10,000 per day). We're gathering about 1000 articles per day, cache results for 7 days, and archive articles after 31 days. We also discard articles after 5 failed tries to your API. This means we're expecting 2000-3000 API calls per day now.

Strangely enough, the postrank fetching through the API works fast on my local machine with the same API key, but takes about 1min per API call on the live system (IP: 70.32.113.244). Is there any chance your API throttles or blocks requests from this IP? The HTTP response gives a 200, but with a massive delay.

We might be open for paid usage of your API as well if that our API calls exceed what you consider "normal" - I couldn't find any standards about this in your developer documentation.

If required, I can provide our API key in a private conversation.

Example:
curl -v "http://api.postrank.com/v2/feed/info?id=http://www.myinkblog.com/feed&appkey=postrank.com/example"
* About to connect() to api.postrank.com port 80
* Trying 75.101.138.238...

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chillu last replied on April 29, 2009 21:11
Sanj
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Is it possible to add value to corporate data using AideRSS?
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Is there a way to use AideRSS to an internal database repository for an organization? We work in the Corporate Social Knowledge network applications and would be interested to know if AideRSS can be applied to a records management system to provide value to internal content.

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Ilya Grigorik (Official Rep) last replied on April 07, 2009 15:21
Marcos Weskamp
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oAuth Authentication flow broken?
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Hi again!

I noticed how after receiving my oauth request token, and directing the user to postrank's authentication ( ex: http://www.postrank.com/oauth/authori... ) and when finally user clicks on (Would you like to authorize ABC access your account?) YES.
User gets dumped right into Postrank, instead of receiving a screen offering to go back to where he came from.

Looking at the oAuth Core authentication scheme: http://oauth.net/core/1.0 you can see how right after step C, the idea is sending the user back to the Consumer App.
Testing against Netflix oAuth authorization scheme, for example, right after user approves access to his acount, the only thing he sees is a big button, that reads (something like) "You are done giving access to ABC to your account. Close this window"

Is this something that you have overseen, or is it possible I'm doing something wrong?

cheers,

.m

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Marcos Weskamp last replied on April 02, 2009 15:03
Marcos Weskamp
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Adding crossdomain.xml to http://www.postrank.com/
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Hi! great stuff here.

If Postrank would like to be able to allow access to flash based applications, you will need to add a crossdomain.xml file so we can query all methods directly to your API. Specially, in the case of all methods that require oAuth Authentication, since seerver side proxying wouldn't work for that.

Netflix and flickr went around it by adding their crossdomain.xml over here:
http://api.netflix.com/crossdomain.xml
http://api.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml

However since some of Postrank methods exist at www.postrank.com (*), you'll need to add your crossdomain file at http://www.postrank.com/crossdomain.xml to be able to grant proper access rights to flash based apps.

(*)
[ All user subscriptions ]
http://www.postrank.com/myfeeds/subsc...
[ All user subscriptions for a given feed ]
http://www.postrank.com/myfeeds/subsc...

thanks!

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Marcos Weskamp last replied on March 31, 2009 03:12
Tom Smith
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Python API returning 5.0 and errors in test_postrank.py
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Python API? I think there are a few issues. Firstly, in the test_postrank.py file, the script contains a parameter called "urls" ... which doesn't work, it only accepts "url" as a list.

Secondly, if I send one URL in the "url" param I always get 5.0 back as a postrank, whereas if I prepend the list with any other URL the other value returned starts to vary.

Am I doing something wrong, all I want is to enter a URL and get a number out? I've just noticed that "thematic" only compares URLs... Can I do what I want?

thanks tom@everythingability.com

I

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Ilya Grigorik (Official Rep) last replied on March 04, 2009 17:19
Mekk
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Fixed pace filter
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Fixed pace for a single feed

Apart from filters per score (Best, Great, Good), it would be nice to have filters ensuring a fixed pace of resulting posts.

I mean for example a filter which would give me 2 posts a week for a given feed (2 best posts of course). This way I could subscribe to such filtered feed as a measure of managing my readload...

Why so? I just noticed that I have hard time deciding whether to subscribe Good, or maybe Great - and my main purpose is just to get a few best posts. Note also, that some high-volume services get 10 for almost every article, so are close to impossible to be filtered out.

Important note: I mean some best posts within given time range (week seems to be most useful period), not just a few best posts in the history.

Possible syntax: ....?best=3&days=7
(3 best posts of last 7 days)

Fixed pace for a tag feed

The same idea could be applied to aggregated feeds.

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Idea shared on February 19, 2009 21:43
Stepan Mazurov
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How does PostRank detect comments?
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We have our own blogging platform (http://www.postzinger.com) and I was wondering what's the best and easiest way for us to share the comment numbers with AideRSS? I looked through your developer documentation and blog posts and could not find relevant information. If you could list all of our options or point me in the right direction to find that info I would gladly appreciate it.

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Question asked on January 26, 2009 19:04
Memeshift
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Can PostRank widgets work side-by-side with Lijit widgets on a self-hosted Wordpress blog?
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Is there a way to remove the search box in the PostRank widget on my Wordpress blog? I want to use PostRank as the ranking service and Lijit as the search service. I really like the styling and linking back to Postrank that comes with the Postrank's widget.

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Melanie Baker (Official Rep) last replied on February 02, 2009 20:20
waaf75
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cannot access API
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I cannot access none of the channel API that I've setup. I've got several kind of error messages "Unable to retrieve channel data" or something that "server isn't responding ..". Here is an example -> http://api.postrank.com/v2/channel/a3... Moreover Is there a limit in terms of RSS feed ? Thanks a lot

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waaf75 last replied on January 31, 2009 00:44
Richard Davies
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AideRSS support in FeedDemon
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I would really, really, REALLY like it if AideRSS/PostRank support was integrated into the FeedDemon desktop news reader application. I know that it's been integrated into their web reader (Newsgator) for some time now, so they definitely aren't opposed to the concept.

Please work with them and encourage them to add this support into FeedDemon!

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The company is working on this idea

Melanie Baker (Official Rep) last replied on October 28, 2008 19:32
mario260988
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Gostou?
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Question asked on January 06, 2009 14:03
awflasher
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What does each icon mean in your statistics
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What does each icon mean in your postrank plugin? Some of them are easy to understand, like digg/comment numbers, but some are so confusing, here is your image:

So what does each mean? Is there any wiki page?

Thanks, I love your plugin and idea!

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awflasher last replied on December 31, 2008 04:32
stevemtzn
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Wordpress Plugin Error preventing activation
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Hi, I'm trying to activate the PostRank wordpress plugin on my v2.7 installation. The error I'm getting is: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /home2/libraryd/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-postrank/postrank.php on line 31

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Nico Lumma last replied on December 18, 2008 20:43
Alex Halliday
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Do you have a commerical API?
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Hi there, we are looking to use your service for a commerical product. We would need rate limits removed and would need to add above 500 feeds. Is that something which you offer?

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Jim Murphy (Official Rep) last replied on November 24, 2008 16:42
alfredfx
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Cannot display the latest feed !
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In post rank, i add http://itblood.blogspot.com/feeds/pos... for analysis and it does not display the latest post. I am using feedburner for my RSS.

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alfredfx last replied on November 17, 2008 16:13