Cross-site reading? How does that work?

[jducoeur]

Huh. Just noticed in today's DreamWidth update that they are now allowing "cross-site reading" -- the implication being that you can integrate your LJ friendlist into your DreamWidth one. It's a feature that I *desperately* wanted in CommYou, but concluded was difficult-to-impossible at the time. So now I'm curious how DW is making it work. My suspicion is that there's been an API enhancement while I wasn't looking, and that's very intriguing: if the API now provides a good way to get at your flist, it might make a good Android LJ-reading client more plausible...

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[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Looks like they're using an LJ API method called get_friends_page, based on the bug comments.

Ha, sorry, the so-typical-of-LJ undocumented API call to get your friends page.

For a mobile client you can presumably make polling cheaper with the checkfriends method that fetches a new post count.

[jducoeur]

*headdesk* *Naturally* the call that I consider one of the most important and useful in the whole damned API is undocumented. Thanks for pointing that out...