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This isn't my area of geekdom, but damn, seems really fucking cool. Thank you for the hard work O and s5. I shall now check this out and learn on the fly! My geek knowledge will now expand to something new and cool!

hehe this sucks -- i just spent a whole hell of a lot of time screen scraping for a suicidegirls dashboard-like program... balls, wish i would have searched for this first.

any news on a login method for the api yet? that would be nifty.

fyi: the new beta version of microsoft outlook (2007) has RSS feed capability, and it has some issues with SG rss feeds. it will connect fine when you add it, and every hour after that, but if you close outlook, then reopen, all the sudden it can't connect to the SG server, almost like SG cancels your subscription due to abuse.
I reported it to MS but they say its your end. bleh!

Is there any chance of a more complete reference for the XML API? The one on the technology page only mentions the user.getInfo method - but with some nifty WireShark skill I've found a few things out.
Namely, how to search for girls and how to get a list of all photos in a certain photoset, but I don't know how to get a list of a certain girl's photosets, short of scraping the HTML of /girls/<girl>/pics/all/.
Is there a way to do this?

is there anymore to this thing yet? the potential for some really cool shit is here

my requests

1) a login api
2) return list of girls
3) return list of sets by girl
4) return number of pics in set

Concerning auth, why not adding a private key, a bit like google calendar.
Explaining :
-You log in
-You go to your profile page
- You click a button, generating a guid associated with your user name (i.e. bamboo_slide <-> {9E799190-6BC3-4b7e-A068-8304B4F501C8} )
- You can bypass auth using your private key.
- If your key has been stolen, you can just regenerate another.

It can be useful for example for having a feed for friends blogs. Just adding a suicidegirls.com/feeds/friendsBlogs/?key=myPrivateKey and that's done !

It can be nice also for widgets, because you become independant from browser's cookie. So the http://suicidegirls.com/xml/user/getInfo/ can become a http://suicidegirls.com/xml/user/getInfo/?key=myPrivateKey and don't need cookie things to work

i like the guid for logins for ease of use, but for security, not great.

there should be a login webservice that returns you a session guid. you then use this guid in all api calls for the session. that's how i would do it anyways...

It's a fact it's not very secure, but it's the only simple way. The google calendar way

And now, another RSS request :
- For someone RSS (ie http://suicidegirls.com/rss/journals/someone/) if the entry is private, can we have the title like "[Private]Journal's title". Actually it's only "Private", and not very easy to read in an aggregator.
- For someone RSS comments (ie http://suicidegirls.com/rss/comments/someone/) is it possible to have a title ? The name of the one who made the comment for example. Because there's only.

It seems to be very little updates. Thanks !

I know it's an old topic, but I'm curious if there are plans in the works to be able to run rss feeds for journal updates? I'd like to be able to link my SG journal to my facebook page, as well as making it easier for friends and family to know when I update. My brother-in-law tells me he never looks at my SG because he can't get an rss to it. I doubt he's the only one.

Anybody?

so... what is RSS and widget and what am i missing out?

RSS
Widget
Basically what it means is that you can receive regular updates from a website directly to your computer without having to go to the page. Most web browsers let you know if there is a "feed" available from the page you have open. An RSS feed on your journal would make it possible for your friends to know when you update, and view your updates without having to open the web-site. Which I just realized there is. Safari doesn't tell me there is one, though...
There are widgets available that let you know when there are new comments messages and friends requests sent to you.
A full list is available here.

There is an RSS feed for your own journal at http://suicidegirls.com/technology/ You'd want 'Journals: Bill_the_Cat'

I figured that out.

thank you for answering
is it kind of like when DONOTREPLY@suicidegirls.com emails you when you get a new message or friend request?

I still can't get MetaWeblog API to work, so that I can write blogs from my computer. I have tried from scribefire and MS word 2007. Maybe there's something I'm not getting in these instructions from the technology page:

The only way I can interpret that is to enter http://suicidegirls.com/members/RADmonkey/
as the Blog Post URL, and then my user name and password. Then I get a message like "Word cannot register your account."

I've also tried http://suicidegirls.com/members/RADmonkey/blog/xmlrpc.php
and
http://suicidegirls.com/members/RADmonkey/blog/

no dice.

Help!