Let me expand on that. Julian Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 8 Apr 2008 15:21:37
I'm really looking forward to the SG-API becoming useful, but right now it's pretty flaky. There's a lot of pages you'd expect to be in there that aren't and the result you get back aren't what you'd expect.
SG-API actually worked very well for my purposes. I'm looking for outward edges and they came back in a pretty convenient form. However, it's dependent on the underlying index, not reading the pages in real time. And several friendfeed pages I tried had no data or incomplete data because they'd been created since the last time the spider called. So it looks to me like SG-API is a useful research tool, but not a useful data import tool.
Alternatively, if you want to parse uFs in PHP, I believe hKit by Drew McLellan [2] may have some @rel=me support?
Not yet. It seems to be extensible but there's only an extension for hCard at the moment. Reading between the lines, hKit is using Tidy to turn the html into well formed xhtml and then simpleXml to parse out the uFs. So going down that route or one like it seems to be the best option.
It would be good if there were actually some solid libraries to read all the uFs and especially XFN in PHP. A format that's easy to write but hard to read isn't terribly useful. :(
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