“Send To” LiveJournal and Iterasi for Google Reader

I’ve gotten a lot of great feedback about my last two posts about adding Send To buttons to Google Reader for for Instapaper and Evernote, including links at my old stomping grounds ,Download Squad.

These articles are fun for me to write, so I’ll keep it up for the time being. In the Download Squad comments there were requests for instructions for LiveJournal and Iterasi. They both turned out to be easy enough, so read on for the instructions.

In each case, follow the same steps as in the previous tutorials. Head to the Google Reader Settings page, go to the Send To tab, and scroll to the bottom. Click on “Create a custom link” and in the form that appears enter the values below. When you’re done click on Save.

LiveJournal

URL

http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?event=%3Ca%20href%3D%22${url}%22%3E${title}%3C%2Fa%3E&subject=${title}

Icon URL

http://www.livejournal.com/favicon.ico

Iterasi

URL

https://www.iterasi.net/Capture.aspx?v=1.0&u=${url}&t=${title}

Icon URL

https://www.iterasi.net/favicon.ico

Thoughts

The reason the LiveJournal one is pretty ugly is that the “event” parameter contains the actual text of the post it creates on LiveJournal—which, in our case, is an HTML link—and for it to work correctly we have to “URL encode” it before we put it in the URL. Unencoded it’s just this very boring bit of HTML:

<a href=”${url}”>${title}</a>

If you want you can replace that with any HTML or text you want as long as it’s encoded (except for the ${title} and ${url} parts, which must remain unencoded).