venus: CSV for subscription list

[Alf Eaton]

On 31 Jul 2007, at 20:15, Sam Ruby wrote:

> Alf Eaton wrote:
>> Apologies if this has been suggested before, but would it be  
>> possible to have CSV as an input format for the list of feed  
>> subscriptions in Venus? That way you could use Google Spreadsheets  
>> to collaboratively manage the list of feeds.
>
> I've not heard that suggestion before.  Intriguing.
>
> Seems to me that there would need to be a bit more of a convention  
> than simply CSV.  First column is the URI, the second column is the  
> name, additional columns may have name=value in them?  Or perhaps,  
> the first row is reserved for labels which determine the meaning of  
> the various columns in additional rows?
>
> In any case, would you happen to have a sample spreadsheet showing  
> what your thinking was on this subject?

Here's a simple example, with just URL and name columns:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p- 
hC6jVAyS8mYXZqf5lboKw&output=csv

Presumably if the column order was standardised the column headers  
could be removed, or as you say the column header names could be  
standardised instead.

Other possibly useful output options include
text (TSV?): http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p- 
hC6jVAyS8mYXZqf5lboKw&output=txt
Atom: http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/ 
o14504742346433368314.3163874286747934104/od6/public/basic

alf.