It would have been great if Google let someone take over Google Feeds API so those who were still using it (seems like quite a lot) could continue to do so. If it was taken over, perhaps someone could have implemented some potential improvements to it.
Instead it seems it has been killed off leaving those who were using it in limbo. On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 13:48:28 UTC, jgeerdes [AJAX APIs "Guru"] wrote: > > The only thing I have found in the form of an official statement from > Google is the changes to the deprecation section of the terms. These are > abundantly clear: Google has no intention of further supporting the Feeds > API. In fact, since I last looked, they've amended the section to make it > even more clear that April 20, 2015 was to be the official sunset date. > Every day since then has been a bonus. > > https://developers.google.com/feed/terms?hl=en#deprecation-policy > > I will observe that this is a rather inglorious ending for the Feeds API. > When it was launched by a team of 3 people, it stood as a shining exception > to Google's typical pattern of abyssmal developer relations: the developers > of the Feeds API were involved in the community and highly responsive. They > were very deliberate about fostering the community surrounding the service, > realizing that such community hung on effective communication. I believe it > was at Google I/O 2011 that Google invited select developers to attend a > meeting with top brass in which they promised that this would be the > pattern for all services and developer relations going forward. However, > with the quiet change to the TOS and subsequent shuttering of the service, > it is abundantly clear that these promises were empty. > > Jg > On Dec 2, 2015 7:21 AM, "Mark O'Sullivan" <markyos...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Is there any official confirmation that it has been shutdown? If it has, >> is there no way we can continue to use it? If we can't use it, does this >> mean we now have to find an alternative? >> >> >> On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 03:06:30 UTC, jgeerdes [AJAX APIs "Guru"] >> wrote: >>> >>> I am working to confirm the issue, but initial evidence certainly >>> indicates that the error message is correct: Google has shut down the Feeds >>> API. >>> >>> This is not entirely unexpected. They changes the service's terms to >>> indicate that they may shut it down without warning at any time after April >>> 2015. There are several posts to that effect on this forum. >>> >>> In short, I doubt very much that the service will be restored. You will >>> want to search for alternatives such as Yahoo Pipes. >>> >>> Jg >>> On Dec 1, 2015 8:56 PM, "ココ" <ryuic...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello! Please tell me. >>>> >>>> I am Japanese. 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