gReader just doesn't work

[Josh Brown]

The 'gReader.sh' script fails at getting '$unreadxml'.

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

We already have 'check-gmail.sh', perhaps this script should simply be deleted.

[Tom Swartz (tom-swartz07)]

I don't see any problem from my end?

tom@tardis:~/Documents/Codemonkey Bzr/codemonkey$ ./gReader.sh tom.swartz07 PASSWORD
Unread Feeds: 4

This script gets the number of unread feeds from Google Reader, whereas check-gmail.sh gets the number of unread email messages.

Ill run some troubleshooting on it to see whats up

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

Perhaps some of the code from 'check-gmail.sh 'could be used, as the two scripts have a lot in common.

[Tom Swartz (tom-swartz07)]

Do you have any information involved with Google Reader?

I tried this with a test account that doesnt have any Google reader feeds and it returned a similar error to what you have given.

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

Tom, no I don't have any feeds. But I've done some debugging and it seems 'unreadcount' and 'unreadcountxml' variables are both empty for me - so I made some changes to the code (patch attached), and I now get:
 Unread Feeds: 0

[Tom Swartz (tom-swartz07)]

Excellent. Ill be sure to include this patch with the next set of updates that I push.

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

Looks like you forgot to change $1 and $2 to $username and $password.

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

Even after changing $1 and $2 to $username and $password, the script still doesn't work.

[Tom Swartz (tom-swartz07)]

I still cannot reproduce the problem that you are experiencing.
The only reason that I could come up with is related to comment #5, you dont have any Google feeds that are available to be parsed, and its possible that the error is coming in when you hard code a result for the $unread xml

$1 and $2 allow for the person to include the username and password at runtime, while still allowing the hard-coding of the credentials in the program.

Ill take one more look after dinner tonight and see if I could dig some more up

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

I don't know a lot about feeds, but it seems I have over 1000?

[Tom Swartz (tom-swartz07)]

Oh wow. You definitely have unread feeds. haha

From the looks of it, you have at the very least 7,000 unread feeds items.

Just a quick overview of how it works. Blogs and websites that update on a periodic basis use a method called RSS, or Really Simply Syndication. This allows people to use applications similar to Google Reader to only view the new content that is published since they last saw it.

The ultimate goal of this script is to interface with Google Reader's APIs and allow a client to view the number of unread feed items that they have waiting.

Now that I see this, it could be entirely possible that the number is simply too great for the current script to handle and thus it is throwing the error?

At least now I have some idea of where to look! :D

[Josh Brown (joshbrown)]

I'll attach the code I'm using to debug the problem and the output of that code - I seem to be getting a '401 Unauthorized' error.