Getting stream from Google+ SDK?

Question

Does the current Google+ SDK platform support pulling user stream from Google+ just like facebook/twiter news feed? I did not find anything related in the documentation.

Answer 1

You cannot fully recreate the Google+ steam using the APIs.

You could get a user's list of friends' public posts if you were using the plus.login scope to get access to the people.list method and then used activities.list for each person returned in that people list. Then, if you wanted comments, you could use comments.list for each activity. But again that won't recreate the real stream for you because this will only be public data. You'd also likely miss out on some posts like community posts that are public, but wouldn't come into these APIs.

Depending on what your app is trying to do, this might be sufficient if you're only trying to display a feed of your own posts. But if you are trying to create your own Google+ client, this will not work and you would quickly end up running out of quota.