GoogleGroups2Rss

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You can't access the RSS feed of private Google Groups for Goolge Apps outside of your logged in browser session. There's just no way to provide your credentials.

This little script makes it possible to get an RSS feed of your latest threads in a private Google Group. It first tries to login into your Google account like a browser would do and then saves all the cookies into a curl cookie file. With that you can later access the RSS feeds (because they are there, just hidden).

For the login part I used a class which is provided by playnice by Andy Blyler (https://github.com/ablyler/playnice) and adjusted it to login against your Google Groups account and not Latitude. The rest was easy.

INSTALL

Put all files in a directory. Rename config.inc-dist to config.inc, add your credentials and call it with eg. http://localhost/gr2rss/index.php?group=mygroup. You can also use it from the CLI, but then you have to replace the $_GET['group'] with something more appropriate.

CAUTION

Make sure you protect that file somehow (with http-auth for example) so that not everyone can read your RSS feed and with that the content of your maybe private conversation!

TODO

(no real itentions to actually do it, but as an inspiration)

• Provide credentials via http-auth
• whitelist groups