Gnome-orkut

Posted on September 13, 2006, 9:09 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).

Umm.. this is what I thought I’d name it :)

Yesternight, I was reading Text Processing in Python, when I wandered off to a section which talked of some HTML parsing. It immediately caught my attention because previously also I was trying to scrap html from my orkut account.

A quick reading & I was ready to go… found my saved orkut’s scrapbook page & started parsing.

What I’m planning is to build a Gnome applet, which would give you a popup when someone posts a scrap on your orkut account will let you reply through the same popup.

But the challenge is… how to knwow that when is a new scrap posted!

The one solution, that hit me instantly was… to keep on fetching orkut’s scrapbook page at regular intervals. To prevent processing every time, I plan to process the newly fetched page only when the MD5 differs :)

& to take it a step further, a server can be implemented, which can let users query their orkut account via an xml-rpc interface… okay, that’s a bit long shot :-P

Imagine, how nice it would be if people could build third party apps for Orkut :)

Previous works in this category… http://snipurl.com/wcmm

BTW, another news… I’ve added a new subdomain to makuchaku.in. http://makulabs.makuchaku.in is my new placeholder for all my devel projects/docs/etc. I’ll slowly be moving my stuff there :) This name “makulabs” was first suggested by आशीष शुक्ला alias “Wah Java !!”. Thanks आशीष :-)

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  • http://wahjava.googlepages.com/ आशीष शुक्ला alias “Wah Java !!”

    Thanks MACu :)

  • http://gmail.com nilu

    hi

  • coke

    i really dont understand much abt computers..but maybe i can pose this to you…incase one has a good idea to give to orkut in terms of its interface how does one go abt it…and importantly..do they pay?:)

  • hasan

    hello. stumbled upon your page as i too am looking to do something like this. however, i want to log into orkut remotely, then scrap (pun intended) the scrapbook for html.
    i may be a noob, but ive spent a lot of time trying to implement the login phase. just doesnt seem to be working for some reason. even google has let me down this time.
    message me if youre interested and maybe we can come up with something :)

  • http://www.makuchaku.in/blog makuchaku

    Hi Hasan,
    I suppose there are many open source libraries that allow you to login to google accounts – gmail notifier must be using one, the project that added gmail-fs to system would also be using it – i think looking at their source would help :)

    Maku

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