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  RSS feeds

  For this site to be all "Web 2.0", where are the rss feeds? I want a feed for profiles, for each shelf, for group discussions, group shelves, book reviews...everything.

  Ben started this discussion 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Mike 

  Hey Ben - thanks for the suggestion. It's gonna happen, but we're working on a bunch of other features. It's on the roadmap though...

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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    Jigar Mehta 

    Actually, RSS feeds should be a top priority according to me.. (though, i dont know what all things you guys are working on!)..
    
    Shelfari has everything.. It also has social networking of its own.. but all my contacts are not on shelfari.. If shelfari gets RSS feeds, a lot more people can be pulled towards shelfari, and at the same time, i can stay in sync with my other friends without everyday coming to website and checking their activity!

    posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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    Stephen James 

    I was looking for an RSS from Shelfari today, but couldn't find it. I was going to include it in my post on creating a reading list in a WordPress blog from Amazon Wish List (web services) using Yahoo! Pipes, but alas. i couldn't find any feeds on your site.
    
    http://www.smjdesign.com/designwell/archives/reading-list-wordpress-amazon-wish-list-with-yahoo-pipes-rss/

    posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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    Jigar Mehta 

    As I mentioned in one of my previous post, it should be top priority for RSS feed.. Although, I tried to parse the page and tried to create the RSS feed myself with the help of external service..
    
    Take a look at my Shelf rendered as RSS shelf,
    http://feed43.com/jigarshelf_advanced.xml
    

    posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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    warrick 

    I'd love to see RSS too; the embed widget doesn't work on wordpress.com blogs too well, so an RSS widget would be great

    posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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    pratn 

    The Shelfari Facebook app, for lack of a better word, sucks :). Actually it isn't that bad, but then it has so few features. Where are the news feed updates? If there was a RSS feed, I could "import" it in facebook at least.

    posted 9 months ago. ( reply )

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    Zeke F 

    Another vote for RSS feeds. Especially since there isn't an API and the widgets' HTML output is just anchored images with cleared divs between them. This string was started a year ago, but there still isn't RSS feeds. :)

    posted 4 months ago. ( reply )

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    TJ  

    I've been checking and checking to see if you have fixed this yet...but no!
    Come on...

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( reply )

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  David Catalano 

  I second this request Ben. RSS for EVERYTHING -- most obviously though would be all of the books. It should also include ISBN and preferably Amazon book IDs

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Amanda 

  Definitely something I've added to the Feature Request list!

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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    khabira 

    I would really like to be able to have cohesiveness between my Facebook page and Shelfari. That would be heaven.

    posted 7 months ago. ( reply )

• Clay S 

  I'm trying to decide what site to use for tracking my reading, and I'll tell you that without RSS feeds and soon, I can't stay here. Booktagger looks just as nice and they have feeds.

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    Ben 

    Clay, if you need RSS feeds, also check out GoodReads.com. I use both goodreads and shelfari, but goodreads seems to have a larger feature set, including RSS feeds for most everything.

    posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  zedascouves 

  I second, third and fourth that request! If it's not on the top of the requests, it should be!

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Robert H 

  Just to add my voice to the list. RSS feeds needed (especially for reviews), urgently.
  
  As the Shelfari Facebook app doesn't put anything on the mini Feed (which it should!), I am rather hoping to use the RSS feed as "Posted Items" on FB.
  
  I tried anoobi and goodreads and livingsocial (and some FB apps like Visual Bookshelf), but none of them are as nice to use as Shelfari. On the other hand, all the others are better at interactions with other websites, so it's a bit of a conundrum!

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• Lytol 

  No RSS!? That's a deal-breaker. Generally, I love what you guys have put together, but if I can't get everything syndicated then there's no point. Let me know if you add it though and I'll be back. Time to check out goodreads.com (with FriendFeed already supporting them).

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Gerald F.M. 

  Guys, remember that Shelfari is still developing. I have a few frustrations, but my overall experience has been so great that I am willing to wait as the site matures. I see slight updates daily, and I can tell a lot of work is going into the place. Goodreads is great also, but Shelfari is more user-friendly.

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  Aaron N 

  I can't believe that this was posted in January and there still aren't RSS feeds. Lame! It's not like this technology is, you know, exceptionally challenging.

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  dblume 

  Shelfari should understand that we're all sorry to have to use LibraryThing instead because it has the RSS feeds that integrate with FriendFeed, SocialThing, SweetCron and all the other lifestreams. (Not to mention just plain ol' feedreaders.)
  
  I really wanted to use Shelfari. But the lack of any RSS feeds forces me into LibraryThing's hands.
  
  We wouldn't be asking if we didn't want Shelfari to succeed. We do!

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  mrbrune 

  Ditto on the need for a RSS feed. I'm a teacher and am weighing the use of Shelfari against LibraryThing. I need\want to know when my students add books to our class shelf. An RSS feed would really help!

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  leonor 

  I would really love to have Shelfari RSS feeds, like everyone else that has requested them here.

  Could you at least give us some idea of when RSS will be available?

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Suleiman L 

  Due to me waiting quite some time for RSS I'm moving over to Booktagger. I can't wait anymore and I need it for a design for a lifestream site.

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Xesc 

  I see I' m not the only one to ask for RSS feeds. The user interface is very nice, but I need to access my data. ;)

  posted 1 year ago. ( reply )

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  Dinis C 

  Any news on this issue?

  posted 12 months ago. ( reply )

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  Craig C 

  I would use RSS feeds. :)

  posted 11 months ago. ( reply )

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  dblume 

  I still check in here to see if Shelfari has feeds yet. Would love to really use this site.

  posted 11 months ago. ( reply )

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  rh0dium 

  Bummer I'm moving on.

  posted 10 months ago. ( reply )

• Alexis L 

  any news on rss feeds? I'd love to put my currently reading list on my blog but i use wordpress.com and not wordpress.org, so there's no way i can add it in unless I have an rss feed for the shelf.

  posted 10 months ago. ( reply )

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  dkearns72 

  How could it not be in Shelfari's interest not to get RSS feeds running ASAP?!

  posted 10 months ago. ( reply )

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  Andreas L 

  I thought I was being stupid, but now I found this and there really IS NO RSS FEEDS? Then this is not the service for me. Back to Readernaut is it.

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  Artem Daniliants 

  I wanted to add RSS feed to FriendFeed, but after some searching realized Shelfari doesn't have RSS support for personal activity. If possible please provide RSS support for personal updates (adding books to my shelf and so on).

  I am new on the site and so far loving it...except for no RSS support...

  P.S. I really like Shelfari's user interface. Good job!

  posted 9 months ago. ( reply )

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  Amanda 

  What are the most important elements for you in an RSS feed from Shelfari? We are hearing your request and want to make sure that any RSS feed we build is useful for you.

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    Andreas L 

    I'd be happy with just a simple feed of what I added as currently reading, with title, author and image.

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    Artem Daniliants 

    I would be happy with personal RSS feed of what I am reading currently (as Andreas suggested) as well as RSS feed for books I own.

    posted 9 months ago. ( reply )

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    Amanda 

    Thanks!

    posted 9 months ago. ( reply )

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  mrbrune 

  I just want to be able to create a feed for each of my student's tags and our class tag. (They tag each of their book additions with their own unique tag and our class tag and we create widgets for each of their webpages and our class home page.) I would use a feed for each student's tag and our class tag to keep abreast of when books are added and which books are added by each student.

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    Inkberry 

    Our school district blocks shelfari....we are very disappointed.

    That is great you are able to use it.

    posted 9 months ago. ( reply )

• ipaulo 

  Tumblr.com is an interesting (to me at least) new blogging / aggregation site that has a very simple "blog" interface plus something akin to FriendFeed. Example: for my tumblr page, I point it at the public rss feed for my delcious bookmarks. When I bookmark a site via delicious, it shows up on my tumblr page without needing to do anything. So I second the personal activity RSS feed Artem D asked for. Being able to customize the level of detail of the activity that goes into the feed (to address both privacy concerns and to limit the noise in the feed) would be great.

  posted 7 months ago. ( reply )

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  Tarn M (edited)

  I'd like to be able to create my own shelves and then create RSS feeds of these shelves

  posted 7 months ago. ( reply )

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  Josh Knowles 

  Add me to the long list of people wanting more RSS access -- especially to my reviews of books. It'd let me integrate my talk here into my own blog, which would be more promotion for Shelfari.

  Love the interface, hate the lack of API.

  posted 7 months ago. ( reply )

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  vane. 

  a year past and nothing

  posted 6 months ago. ( reply )

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  Joe Litobarski 

  I set up an account on Shelfari... only then did I realise it's not supported by friendfeed and there is no RSS feed.

  It's off to Goodreads for me.

  I would like to use Shelfari, so I might return if the RSS is set up, but the more I use Goodreads, the harder it will be for me to switch back.

  posted 5 months ago. ( reply )

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  Johnny C 

  I'm switching to something else too until there is RSS support. I was amazed that it didn't exist.

  posted 5 months ago. ( reply )

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  Catherine H 

  I'd really love it if you guys added RSS! I hope you're still working on it! I love the site so much!

  posted 3 months ago. ( reply )

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  blackfeathers 

  +1 on the rss

  posted 3 months ago. ( reply )

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  Ben Pasley 

  another vote for RSS that would stream anything: updates to shelves, comments on books, new readers... please!

  posted 2 months ago. ( reply )

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  Mark K 

  Is Shelfari still supported? I cant believe 1 year after the original request, this hasn't been offered. Its not like you have to redesign the wheel or anything. Shelfari is pretty nice, but it could be great, if you reached for some low hanging fruit.

  posted 2 months ago. ( reply )

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  Hamish G 

  + 1 for an RSS feed(s) for my shelf :) Other people are interested in what I am reading and would like to keep up to date !

  And visa versa, would like rss feeds of theirs to get ideas.

  posted 2 months ago. ( reply )

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