Posted by DeWitt Clinton, Google
Developer Programs
The AJAX Search team launched a new API
this morning that introduces a subtle, yet powerful new way to integrate syndicated content
into your web applications.
The Google AJAX Feed API provides
functionality that allows webpages to retrieve any public RSS or Atom feed via a simple
JavaScript method call. The data can be retrieved in either JSON or XML format, enabling web
applications to easily mash up and consume the contents of public feeds. Some of the best
content on the web is being syndicated over RSS and Atom channels; this API should help web
developers quickly integrate rich external data sources into their web applications, while
leveraging Google to do the the heavy lifting of crawling, caching, and content
normalization.
