FriendFeed/Disqus Comment Sync v0.1

Posted: January 4th, 2009 | Author: Carter Rabasa | Filed under: Uncategorized | Comments

I’ve completed an alpha version of my Friendfeed-to-Disqus Comment Sync.  It is a 100% Javascript client app, but you must download it to your computer in order to run (cross-domain scripting issues prevent hosting).  The app consists of an html file and a javascript library.  Here are some immediate issues to note:

  • Comments pulled from FriendFeed and posted to Disqus are done so using a bogus email address.  Email is a required field to post a comment to Disqus, but FriendFeed does not provide emails in its API.  So, the email used is <ff nickname>@bogus_email.com.
  • Comments pulled from Disqus and posted to FriendFeed are, unfortunately, posted as you.  There is no way around this given their API.  To compensate, the following tag is appended to each comment: “(comment via Disqus by <name>)”.  In addition, FF does not allow a timestamp to be associated with a comment, so there could be some minor ordering issues.

Feel free to give it a spin and leave any feedback here or on FriendFeed.  I’ll just sync it later.  :)

  • Sounds great! And I like Disqus....
  • how is ur test on friendfeed to disquss comment integration?
  • It's going really well, feel free to check it out!
  • Just to be thorough, I'd like to test the private beta version of the Disqus/FF sync system! Holler at me via http://manofmanywords.blogspot.com. And thanks!
  • new comment
  • Mo bugs mo problems!
  • Longhorns win! Will it sync?
  • Test comment (but must make sure it's unique!)
  • Thanks Carter! So, I'll definitely rewrite parts of it to use jquery and will post my code on github. Btw, you should too! (share on github) :)
  • Test comment
  • directeur
    Really nice code here Carter! I think I'll make my little version starting with your code and using JQuery instead of protoype (got a little preference for jquery over prototype). But I really like it and I will DEFINITELY include your work on my latest app if you agree. What's your licence by the way? :)
  • Cool! I don't know JQuery, so shoot me your code when you get a chance. I'd
    like to learn it. Feel free to use my code. There's no "voodoo", it's just
    glorified batch processing of API calls. I'm looking into a way of
    collecting the data and automating the syncing (cron job). Will be looking
    into the FriendFeed SUP real-time API's,

    No license yet. Anyone can use it however they want. :)
  • Thomas B
    Looks cool ... ok, I´m just testing, sorry... :)
  • Unfortunately, there's no real-time aspect to this yet. But I'll sync things right now just so you can see what it looks like.
  • @directeur, let me know if you have any questions about the code. I'm on GChat at carter.rabasa@gmail.com.
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