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We just released this. I've wanted it ever since I started using Plus, so hopefully some of you will find it useful too :)

I spent quite a bit of time getting the sharing correct - sharing Google+'s various data types is surprisingly hard to get right and make sure links go where you would expect them to.

Feedback welcome.

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This is perfect. I was looking for something exactly like this. How are you reading the posts? How often?

Thanks! We've got a fairly mature spidering architecture, so we're just using that to scrape the posts at scale. It's possible Google will block us, but we're pretty careful to rate limit and load balance across IPs. Plus, you know Google's business is built on scraping :) They don't seem to mind other apps that do it, so I figure we're moderately safe. Once there's an API, we'll use that.

We check every 5 mins if you post frequently, progressively slowing out at around once every 20 mins currently. If traffic builds up we'll slow it down to max at around 1 hour.

Nice job. Looking forward to the API-enabled version.

Excellent!

Once I enabled, it shared my latest public post (from 2 days ago) to twitter. Didn't seem to share the plug for your service though... yet

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