Is it just me or are most language bindings for the FriendFeed API mostly outdated? I’ve now looked at the official ones for Python, PHP and C# as well as two for Java and none of them offers the extended search facilities provided by the API , e.g. the domain search or the URL fetcher. The “real-time”-methods are nowhere to be seen, either. And if you want to at the missing functionality to some of the Java bindings, you end up running into the private-method-wall -_-.
So far I’ve only found one binding for Python (albeit not the official one) by Chris Lasher that supports at least the domain-search. (A new version of it is out now, btw. :D)
On a side-note: If you write a binding for a language, (big, big, big) please make sure that it’s easy to use. It doesn’t really help if a PHP binding is not in PEAR, a Java binding is in no Maven2 repository or a Python binding is not on PyPI.
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