Rate Google Group Post from Gmail Project

Idea

Rate Google Group post from Gmail so the rating system can be used without visiting the Group  web interface. Use a Google Chrome extensions to display 5 stars next to each email from a Group and allow the user to click on one submitting the rating to Google.

Flow

The general flow of the extension.

1. User loads Gmail.
2. Extensions finds Message ID from email.
3. Extension fetches did and tok from Groups.
4. Extensions presents 5 stars next to email.
5. User rates post.
6. Extensions GETs request to rate post.

Find post on group

The following url can be used to find the did and tok needed to rate posts.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Message-ID

Message-ID example:b3ba2f35-7537-4b8d-91db-61ac20a85fd5@v30g2000yqm.googlegroups.com

Message-ID example:MPG.1a749350f6d8bb7a9897f4@news.freeserve.net

Rate post

Using the did, rat, and tok you can rate a Group post with a GET request. The did is the short id for the post. The rat is a number of 1-5. The tok is available from the

http://groups.google.com/group/awesomelists/ratings?did=4d45da69980a222f&rat=4&tok=56ac18390c12a586f7046d3f34849e24

Links

Gmail API

http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/wiki/GmailGreasemonkey10API

Google Group URLs

http://jblevins.org/log/google-groups-urls

Google Chrome Extensions

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/index.html