Is it possible to access a shared note via the evernote SDK?

Question

I'm wondering if its possible to access a note from the Evernote SDK that a user has shared publicly based on its URL?

Obviously you can pull the page itself down without the API, and you can't write to it either way, but I was wondering if it was possible to get a readonly copy via the API so that you could get the note data without having to attempt an unreliable screen scrape.

Answer 1

Yes, you can. The shared note url is of the format : hostname/shard/shardId/notGUID/noteKey .

1. You can parse this URL, to get all the fields separated out. Then, use authenticateToSharedNote API.

2. You can then use the AuthenticationResult to create a note store :

   sharedNoteStoreUrl = AuthenticationResult.noteStoreURL;

   TBinaryProtocol sharedNoteStoreProt = new TBinaryProtocol(new THttpClient(sharedNoteStoreUrl));

   NoteStore.Client sharedNoteStore = new NoteStore.Client(sharedNoteStoreProt,sharedNoteStoreProt);

3. You can then access the note with the getNote API, using the auth token from step 2.