Notifier API

If you are implementing a notifier for FeedLounge, here is some information to get you started.

To get information from FeedLounge, make a REST request to:

http://api.feedlounge.com/notify

This URL requires authentication, and there are two ways you can provide credentials.

1. API Token - each user has an API token which is shown on the API tab of their Settings form. We highly recommend using this form of authentication as it does not require you to ask our users for their username and password.

   You pass in the token using a GET parameter:

   http://api.feedlounge.com/notify?token=token

2. 401 Authentication - pass in the username and password for the user as 401 credentials.

FeedLounge will return an XML document in a format similar to this:

<notify unread_count="36">
  <tag name="foo" unread_count="0" />
  <tag name="bar" unread_count="5" />
  … etc. …
</notify>

Example

We have set up an example account for you to test with:

http://api.feedlounge.com/notify?token=804e38f684cab7c90824922ac08bfb71