Action Stream field list

1 Sep 2008
The Action Stream plugin provides a lot of information about your profiles which isn't accessed by default.  With a little playing (as described in my previous posts) you can really start making your action streams work for you and provide a "lifestream" to your own blog.

The following is a description of all the fields found in the default plugin (without any additional profile plugins) in the following format:

  • service_type
    • stream_type
      • MTStreamActionVar name="xx"
I will try to keep this up to date as new streams are added to the plugin.  One important difference to note is that between "stream_type" and "service_type". The difference is a stream type gathers together similar feeds, i.e. the photos stream_type will be all services where you post photos to, whereas a service_type of “flickr” will just be all actions based on flickr (including favourites etc).

List of current Action Streams fields:

  1. oneup
    1. playing
      1. url
      2. title
      3. playing
  2. colourlovers
    1. colors
      1. title
      2. url
      3. identifier
      4. creater_on
      5. thumbnai
    2. palettes
      1. title
      2. url
      3. identifier
      4. created_on
      5. thumbnail
    3. patterns
      1. title
      2. url
      3. identifier
      4. created_on
      5. thumbnail
    4. favpalettes
      1. url
      2. title
  3. corkd
    1. reviews
      1. url
      2. title
    2. cellar
      1. url
      2. title
    3. list
      1. url
      2. title
  4. delicious
    1. links
      1. created_on
      2. title
      3. url
      4. annotation (requires code change)
  5. digg
    1. links
      1. created_on
      2. title
      3. url
    2. submitted
      1. created_on
      2. url
      3. title
  6. flickr
    1. favorites
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
      4. by
    2. photos
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
  7. friendfeed
    1. likes
      1. url
      2. title
  8. gametap
    1. scores
      1. score
      2. url
      3. title
  9. goodreads
    1. toread
      1. url
      2. title
      3. by
      4. created_on
      5. modified_on
    2. reading
      1. title
      2. url
      3. created_on
      4. modified_on
      5. by
    3. read
      1. title
      2. url
      3. created_on
      4. modified_on
      5. by
  10. googlereader
    1. shared
      1. title
      2. summary
      3. url
      4. enclosure
      5. source_title
      6. source_url
      7. annotation
  11. iconbuffet
    1. icons
      1. url
      2. title
  12. iminta
    1. links
      1. url
      2. title
  13. istockphoto
    1. photos
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
  14. iusethis
    1. events
      1. url
      2. title
    2. osxapps
      1. url
      2. title
      3. favorite
  15. iwatchthis
    1. favorites
      1. url
      2. title
  16. jaiku
    1. jaikus
      1. url
      2. title
  17. kongregate
    1. favorites
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
    2. achievements
      1. title
      2. url
      3. game_title
      4. thumbnail
  18. lastfm
    1. tracks
      1. url
      2. title
    2. lovedtracks
      1. url
      2. title
      3. artist
    3. journalentries
      1. url
      2. title
    4. events
      1. url
      2. title
  19. livejournal
    1. posts
      1. url
      2. title
  20. magnolia
    1. links
      1. url
      2. title
      3. tags
  21. netflix
    1. queue
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
    2. recent
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
  22. netvibes
    1. links
      1. url
      2. title
  23. pandora
    1. favorites
      1. created_on
      2. title
      3. guid
      4. url
      5. album_art
    2. favoriteartists
      1. created_on
      2. title
      3. guid
      4. url
      5. artist-photo-url
    3. stations
      1. created_on
      2. title
      3. guid
      4. url
      5. station-image-url
  24. picasaweb
    1. photos
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
  25. p0pulist
    1. stuff
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
  26. pownce
    1. notes
      1. url
      2. title
      3. note
  27. smugmug
    1. photos
      1. url
      2. thumbnail
  28. steam
    1. achievements
      1. title
      2. description
      3. thumbnail
  29. tumblr
    1. events
      1. url
      2. title
  30. twitter
    1. tweets
      1. url
      2. tweet
    2. favorites
      1. url
      2. tweet_author
      3. title
  31. uncrate
    1. saved
      1. url
      2. title
  32. upcoming
    1. events
      1. url
      2. title
      3. venue
      4. created_on
      5. modified_on
      6. identifier
  33. viddler
    1. videos
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
  34. vimeo
    1. videos
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
    2. like
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
  35. vox
    1. favorites
      1. identifier
      2. url
      3. title
    2. posts
      1. url
      2. title
      3. tags
  36. website
    1. posted
      1. identifier
      2. title
      3. summary
      4. url
      5. source_title
      6. source_url
      7. created_on
      8. modified_on
  37. wists
    1. wists
      1. url
      2. title
      3. created_on
      4. tags
      5. thumbnail
  38. xboxlive
    1. gamerscore
      1. url
      2. score
      3. identifier
  39. yelp
    1. reviews
      1. url
      2. title
      3. review
  40. youtube
    1. favorites
      1. url
      2. title
      3. by
      4. thumbnail
    2. videos
      1. url
      2. title
      3. thumbnail
  41. zoomr
    1. photos
      1. url
      2. identifier
      3. thumbnail

Posted by Richard on Monday, September 1, 2008 at 11:34 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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Many thanks, Richard. This is very useful.

I have to confess that I am having great difficulty wrapping my head around how some of these tags work. I've looked at the documentation and recipes in the subversion you pointed me to on the MT forums, but still no luck.

What I want to do is, I think, fairly simple.

1. Set up my ActionStreams
2. Pull the last n posts from each
3. Group them separately: lastn for digg, lastn for smugmug, lastn for newsvine, lastn for goodreads.
4. Each stream is positioned differently on my page. It's not just one long list in a sidebar. So in one box, I want only the newsvines. Elsewhere, I want just the diggs, and so on.
5. In each box/section, I want to show the title or name of the service as a caption, linked to its homepage. This is what I find I cannot do.
6. When I use pubDate/retrieve a created_on field, it gives me the absurd level of detail I don't want. I merely want the day-month-year.

How do I achieve this?

I tried following your collating example, but without success.

Gautam Patel | September 7, 2008 7:43 AM | Reply

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