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Hi Iliya.

I can see now that user-hash is returned properly from the user/info call.
Thanks!

subscriptions/feed still returns 404.

two follow-up questions (maybe I should open a new report here)

1) calls to the topic api generally timeout. Sometimes it will timeout for the first 2 or 3 calls, but then it (feels as if) results get cached, and returned pretty fast.
FYI the call I'm referring to is:

http://api.postrank.com/v2/topic/{user-hash}/{tag}?appkey={ appkey }&num={num}&level={level}&start={offset}

2) You used to have an api method that will return Postranked results all of a users' subscriptions. Has that gone anywhere else and I can't find it?

Right now, I could get a list of a user subscriptions, then query for Top Posts for each of the returned feeds, but that's not really efficient, and considering how slow api calls are, it's just a bad idea.

I can get around asking users to create a specific tag (or "topic" I guess it is now) , and tag all their feeds with that, but it's really cumbersome and I'm afraid not many users will get how to do that quickly.

Are there plans to have such an api method?
Or maybe at least tagging all of a user's feeds with a default tag we'd know it exists so we can call for:
http://api.postrank.com/v2/topic/{user-hash}/all-topics? [ ... ]

or something similar?

thanks.

update: just bumping this bug up, since without that user-hash, I can't access any of the topics API :( I guess it was an oversight when moving to the new API? thanks! – marumushi, on May 17, 2009 22:13

ouch, my bad for not reading the docs properly.

http://api.postrank.com/v2/topic?appKey=[...]

should have been:

http://api.postrank.com/v2/topic?appkey=[...]

with "appkey" all lowercase and the value for it, is the URI of my app.
v2 api does not require authentication, hence the oAuth key / secret has nothing to do with this.

Got to say, docs are kinda confusing though. Just as I noted in my previous comment there's a couple of inconsistencies on the way results come back:

http://www.postrank.com/user/info.xml

as well as methods that don't seem to exist anymore.

http://www.postrank.com/subscriptions...

(404 - also tried with fresh feed-id's received from
http://www.postrank.com/subscriptions... )

Thanks for your help!

.marcos

I'm sorry, after reviewing the Docs a bit more, I did find user-hash mentioned somewhere else. Supposedly, according to the docs, I should be receiving the user-hash on the results of the user/info call:

http://www.postrank.com/user/info.xml

Docs say I should be receiving this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user>
<email>quentin@example.com</email>
<user-hash>b6589fc6ab0dc82cf12099d1c2d40ab9</user-hash>
</user>

However, this is what actually comes back:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user>
<nick>examplenick</nick>
<id type="integer">12345</id>
</user>

... tried using the user id instead of the user-hash, but of course it didn't work either.

aha! that seems to solve it. Thanks!

woOt! That was fast!
Awesome! Thanks!
Will try to ping you when I have something interesting to show.