Now that I'm using FeedLounge as my primary feed reader, I needed to re-create some of my little tools. I also took the opportunity to play with Greasemonkey. 🙂 I created two scripts, one grabs the current item in FeedLounge for my Around the web posts, the other posts the item to del.icio.us.
As previously noted, I use Tasks Pro™ to gather the links my weekly Around the web posts. I have automated this process as much as possible, with bookmarklets and scripts that format a list item with a link and append it to my Around the web task. Then, every Sunday, I just go to that task and post it to my blog.
Greasemonkey is pretty cool. The Greasemonkey version of these scripts actually adds a button to the item view toolbar in FeedLounge. Then I can just click the proper button to add the item to my Around the web task or post the item to del.icio.us.
Since I prefer Camino to Firefox for my daily use (I use Firefox for development testing mostly), I created bookmarklet versions of these scripts as well.
Before you can use these scripts, you need to edit them to enter your Tasks Pro™ or Tasks URL and the id of the task you want to use, or your del.icio.us username respectively.
UPDATE 2005-11-27 - FeedLounge bookmarklets and Greasemonkey scripts are now hosted on feedlounge.com.
At FeedLounge, we think it's great when people write little helper scripts like this - I imagine this code will help others get started if they want to. I'll put a follow-up post with more details about our thoughts on this kind of customization on the FeedLounge blog.
This post is part of the project: FeedLounge. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
Greasemonkey Scripts
I posted a couple of Greasemonkey scripts (and bookmarklet equivilents) for FeedLounge on my blog today. Here at FeedLounge we have the following attitude about user scripts like this:
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It’s a high compliment when someone l…
Any word on accepting new beta testers? I’d sent an application via the comments form right after the announcement.
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I cannot wait to check out FeedLounge. I sent my beta application the day of the announcement. Hopefully it won’t be too much longer!
We may bring on a few more testers during the alpha. We want to be able to guage usage but we can’t bring on too many until we move to our big beefy servers.
Right now on this box there are about 25 web sites including at least 10 blogs I can think of, 3 forums and about 150 installs of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks (demos, free trials and 5 or 6 production installs).
This box is only a P4 2.something with a gig of RAM – with FeedLounge on top of all that stuff, it’s getting a pretty good workout.
Hope I get to beta test FeedLoungue! 😀
Wow, that’s a lot of software on one server…
I use tasks every day, but I will still have to wait for a FeedLounge account before testing your greasemonkey script… 😉
Ooops, error, I don’t use Tasks, I use Tasks Jr.
Greasemonkey Script for FeedLounge
Click through for more helpful Greasemonkey code….
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I also created a bookmarklet version for non-Firefox users.
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You can find the updated scripts on the Support page, under “Scripts an…
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post it to del.icio.us
populate an e-mail…