»Chapter 10. Supporting the Blogger API
Like LiveJournal, the weblog service Blogger![[o]](../../img/globe.gif)
» provides a programmatic interface that's been built with XML-RPC». To allow our users to make use of popular Blogger-compatible tools (Radio, Blogbuddy, w.bloggar, TextRouter), we've added internal support for their API. However, the Blogger API» is currently labeled as ‘experimental and alpha’, and will not be developed further.[11]
The Blogger interface address for a LiveJournal installation is /interface/blogger/».
Supported Methods
LiveJournal supports the following Blogger API methods (methods are linked to relevant documentation):
Notes
- LiveJournal makes no use of the appkey parameter.
- The Blogger API does not support the use of post titles (subjects). To set a title for your post include the title wrapped in <title> tags in your post body.
- LiveJournal specific meta data (current mood and music) are supported by including a line consisting of lj-metadatakey: metadata in the post body (e.g. lj-mood: happy).
- The publish parameter is always set true.
- blogger.getUserInfo will return the account's name for both firstname and lastname.
- Due to the differences between Blogger's and LiveJournal's template systems, the blogger.getTemplate and blogger.setTemplate methods are not supported.
[11] Blogger: ‘We are working along with others in the blogging industry to produce a new, more robust API. You can view the current state of the Echo Project here».’