Blogger Developers Network

Atom Threading, Profile URLs, and RSS Validation

2008-05-09T09:45:00.000-07:00

We’ve just launched three additions / fixes to Blogger’s site feeds:

<thr:in-reply-to> elements from Atom Threading Extensions (RFC 4685). These elements point from comment feed entries to the post feed entry that they’re commenting on. They’re especially useful for associating comments from the per-blog comment feed with the relevant posts.
Profile URLs in <person> entries. We’re now adding <uri> elements to <person> elements that point to the person’s Blogger profile or homepage. This matches the behavior on Blogger’s HTML comment pages. We’re also adding these elements to post <entry>s, but only if the author of the post lists the blog on his profile.
RSS 2.0 feeds now validate. We’ve added dummy noreply@blogger.com email addresses to <person> entries so that they validate in RSS 2.0, which requires an email address.

How are these working out for you? Let us know in the Blogger API Google Group.

Atom Publishing Protocol Interop Meeting, November 13–14

2007-11-08T08:47:00.000-08:00

Blogger and Google Data API developers will be participating in the November 2007 Atom Publishing Protocol interoperability meeting, happening this coming Tuesday and Wednesday, November 13–14. This is a chance for implementers of servers and clients to squash any remaining bugs in their APP code to make sure that they match the upcoming standard.

Take a look at the wiki page for instructions on how you can participate!

Video: Pamela Fox and Ryan Boyd talk about the Blogger JavaScript client library

2007-10-22T12:49:00.000-07:00

(Or, watch on YouTube)

Blogger JavaScript Client Library Released

2007-10-20T08:32:00.000-07:00

Paul McDonald just announced the new Blogger JavaScript client library over on the Google Data APIs Blog:

The Blogger GData JS Client library enables developers to read and write blog posts using calls to our JavaScript library. This is a full client library, with support for authenticated access to private data and read-write capabilities. Now you can create Blogger applications and mashups that can read and write data from your Blogger blogs. No server-side programming is required. Your application can run on any domain, too. No proxying is required.

We have a new developer guide for JavaScript and some code samples to give you ideas and get you started.

Reporting and tracking Blogger API bugs

2007-10-19T13:40:00.000-07:00

Hopefully, you’re really enjoying the Blogger API and the flexibility of being able to post to your blog using your own custom software. Sometimes things don’t work quite the way you’d expect or like and we want to hear about it.

If you find a bug in our Google Data API implementation, or something that we could do better, please file an issue in our tracker.

We use this to keep track of issues with all of the Google data APIs, so be sure to mention that you’re talking about Blogger when writing your description. While you’re at it, I’d like to hear about it on the discussion group too.

We’re going to start coordinating this external issue tracker with our internal development, so we’ll update the relevant issues if we ship fixes to them.

Blogger API Update

2006-08-15T16:04:00.000-07:00

Hi folks,

Just posting to let subscribers to this blog's feed know that new Blogger/GData documentation is available on code.google.com; please stay tuned to the bloggerDev discussion list for updates.

Thanks,
-Eric and the Blogger Team at Google

Blogger + Emacs = Crazy Delicious

2006-01-12T11:33:00.000-08:00

(sorry, I've been fully infected)

emacsgeek:

"Announcing atom-blogger.el atom-blogger.el found at atom-blogger.tar.bz2 is a light-weight Emacs client for posting and editting blogger.com entries. It uses curl to handle the HTTP side of the blogger ATOM API, and relies on Emacs' support for editting XML --- either via nxml-mode or Emacs' vanila xml-mode."

[via bloggerDev]

PHP Atom API Library

2005-11-23T14:52:00.000-08:00

Beau Lebens recently informed bloggerDev that he's posted a PHP library for interacting with Atom APIs (like Blogger's): http://dentedreality.com.au/phpatomapi/

PHP Atom API Code

2005-10-14T10:38:00.000-07:00

In case you're ever looking for example code for posting to Blogger's Atom API from PHP, see this post on bloggerDev: "Working PHP code to post to Blogger"

Photolightning

2005-10-14T10:35:00.000-07:00

Our friends at Photolightning just released their latest version, which incorporates some nifty Blogger functionality — it can post photos to blogs, which can then be purchased at ClubPhoto. Here's an example blog with some Photolightning posts.

API of the week!

2005-08-19T11:46:00.000-07:00

FeedBurner just announced their RESTful Feed Management API:

Tired of coming to FeedBurner to analyze your stats? Use the API. Tired of "logging in" via a "browser" to "edit" your feed "settings"? Use the API.

What can't you do with the API? Nothing, with one exception. The API has a built-in limit of 20 burned feeds per user id. We will ratchet this down even lower if it's abused, but that seems like a reasonable number to get started.

BlogMarks support

2005-08-03T11:26:00.000-07:00

François Hodierne recently implemented Blogger Atom API support on blogmarks.net:

"The good news is that this PHP/PEAR implementation is open source and immediately available. Be careful, this is not very seriously tested."

You can get it from here:

the class: blogmarks.net/files/Services_Blogger_03.zip

a package with all dependencies: blogmarks.net/files/Services_Blogger_03-package.zip

for documentation and feedback, i started a wiki page on the blogmarks.net wiki about it: dev.blogmarks.net/wiki/ServicesBloggerPhpClient

Two Minor Updates

2005-07-29T13:27:00.000-07:00

We've just added two new sections to Blogger's Atom API documentation:

Draft is what you'd expect it to be. Extensions is where we'll be documenting Blogger-specific additions to the API, such as Line Break Status (the only one listed at the moment).

Please post any questions or comments to bloggerDev.

PowerBlog

2005-07-06T11:43:00.000-07:00

Jon Davis just wrote in to let us know that PowerBlog (a Windows-based desktop blogging client) has gone Open Source:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwrblog/

EVDB API

2005-06-27T11:24:00.000-07:00

EVDB just launched their API.

I like Step 3: "Go make something cool!"

API from FeedBurner

2005-06-21T13:50:00.000-07:00

Dick just announced FeedBurner's Feed Awareness API, which "enables any 3rd party to query feed statistics on FeedBurner feeds."

"AwAPI uses a straightforward web-based protocol to receive requests and return data. Known as REST, it allows anyone to request feed traffic data using URLs submitted via HTTP. The data is returned as plain text XML which can be repurposed, transformed, and displayed by applications that you build. Using XML as the output format means testing and exploring AwAPI is as simple as composing an AwAPI URL and then requesting it with a web browser."

RadioAtomBridge

2005-06-13T09:18:00.000-07:00

Scott Lemon just wrote in to let us know he's released RadioAtomBridge, a tool that enables Radio Userland to post to Blogger blogs:

"A while back I realized that I really wanted to use Radio to be able to post to some of my blogs that are hosted at Blogger.com and Blogspot.com..."

"So this is it ... the new and improved RadioAtomBridge Tool ... a derivative of the xManilaBloggerBridge Tool which was a derivative of the ManilaBloggerBridge Tool. I'm giving all of this code to Userland to incorporate this into a future version of Radio."

FotoFlix

2005-04-25T16:57:00.000-07:00

The folks at FotoFlix just wrote in to let us know that they've added Blogger support to their photo-sharing site.

"We are very excited to offer this service and Blogger is the first blogging site which we are supporting directly using an API... We are anticipating for it to be well received due to it's uniqueness and simplicity."

It's great to see innovative new Atom API uses from the web community!

Textamerica API

2005-04-14T16:33:00.000-07:00

Another webapp/blogging API with which to tinker: Textamerica Developer API

JavaScript Blog

2005-04-04T14:02:00.000-07:00

Scott Andrew is blogging all about AJAX and JavaScript at The Strange Zen of JavaScript. Just added it to the blogroll...

[via PhilR]

Zoundry Updated

2005-03-30T21:13:00.000-08:00

We just heard from Lawrence Lee of Zoundry that their Blog Writer app has been updated to support SSL and Blogger's AtomAPI. It's a Windows app for doing WYSIWYG blogging from the desktop.

PocketBlogger Updated

2005-03-21T10:59:00.000-08:00

Steve Novoselac just wrote in to let us know that PocketBlogger's been updated to support Blogger's Atom API and secure authentication via SSL.

PocketBlogger is a PocketPC Blogger client.

43Things API

2005-03-17T17:31:00.000-08:00

Our friends at The Robot Co-op just released Web Services. for 43Things. Fun!

Google Code

2005-03-17T10:46:00.000-08:00

Google Code launched today; here's DiBona's Google Blog post:

We're very happy to be launching code.google.com today. To begin, we're releasing some developer-oriented libraries and tools. Google developers use these every day to make their programs easier to debug, faster, and more reliable. A number of engineers have used their 20% time to ready these tools for release, and will also help build the communities we hope will form around them.

We're also featuring links to all current Google APIs. Come check them out and if you'd like more information, please join our group, subscribe to our feeds, or if you're shy, email us directly. And happy coding!

Ecto

2005-03-16T10:54:00.000-08:00

Nice! Adriaan just released an updated version of Ecto for both Mac and Windows, which supports SSL authentication.