
Here’s a review of the 10 best free online RSS readers I’ve come across so far. There’s an overwhelming amount of them out there, an aftermath of a race to fill the void Google Reader left when it was shut down. The feed will display all messages contained in your inbox.After restarting my RSS subscriptions, I’ve been on a constant lookout for good RSS readers. Google Reader does not ( ).Ĩ) You will be given a Google Apps Script URL. FeedDemon’s pro version supports such authentication. Note that few RSS readers support authentication for private feeds. You would expose all your mail to anyone on the Internet.

Select ‘Execute the app as : User accessing the web app’.Accept the request.ĥ) Create a first version by clicking Menu > File > Manage VersionsĦ) Deploy this script by clicking Menu > Publish > Deploy as web appħ) If your RSS browser supports authentication for private feeds: Here is a basic installation guide :ģ) Run the script by clicking Menu > Run > doGetĤ) You will be asked whether you agree to grant this script access to your Gmail account.

We could even output one RSS item for each thread rather than one item for each email. Thanks to Google Apps Script’s rich API, the script can be adapted to output, say, only starred messages or only messages sent from a specified person. Google already provides an Atom feed for Gmail and I wrote some code to turn it into a command-line tool but this feed cannot be customized. It could be useful for whatever reason (e.g. It consists in a Gmail to RSS adapter which basically allows one to check his emails from an RSS reader.

Following Montreal GTUG‘s February 7th meetup and Arun Nagarajan‘s presentation about Google Apps Script, I got interested by this new API offered by Google and I created my first web app based on Google Apps Script.
