These are not meant to be instructions! They are notes on the process of using the API manually
New API doco:
http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/gdata.html#Get_Feed_Manual
"To get a feed of a blog's entries, you send the following HTTP request to Blogger" [Everything in XML!]
curl -o blog.1 http://itilopia.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
"After you send the GET request, Blogger may return a redirect, depending on various factors. If so, send another GET request to the redirect URL." Curl takes care of this...
Posting: Client Login [URL encoding needs to be done in the POSTS]
Then authenticate the user. To do that, send a POST request to the following URL:
https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin
From http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForInstalledApps.html
POST /accounts/ClientLogin HTTP/1.0
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Email=johndoe@gmail.com&Passwd=north23AZ&service=blogger&source=Gulp-CalGulp-1.05
[CAPTCHA example]
POST /accounts/ClientLogin HTTP/1.0
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=johndoe@gmail.com&Passwd=north23AZ&service=blogger&
source=Gulp-CalGulp-1.05&logintoken=DQAAAGgA...dkI1LK9&logincaptcha=brinmar
Where
| logintoken | (optional) Token representing the specific CAPTCHA challenge. Google supplies this token and the CAPTCHA image URL in a login failed response with the error code "CaptchaRequired". |
| logincaptcha | (optional) String entered by the user as an answer to a CAPTCHA challenge. |
curl's POST doesn't work... This URL has a working example for calendar using wget...
http://denizyuret.blogspot.com/2006/05/google-calendar-how-to-delete-multiple.html
$ wget --no-check-certificate -O blog.2 --post-data 'Email=stevej098@gmail.com&Passwd=xxxxxxx&service=blogger&source=Gulp-CalGulp-1.05' https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin
$ grep Auth blog.2
To use the 'Auth' string:
wget -q -O- --header='Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=XXX' http://...And this piece from the instructions is cracker-jack! You gotta go look at the
Now send the POST request to the appropriate Blogger URL:
http://www.blogger.com/feeds/blogID/posts/default
Note: This URL is the same as the URL in the <link rel="service.post"> tag that appears in the <head> section of the human-readable version of the blog.
It also appears in the XML downloaded:
<code><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3110200838296430371.post-4190105953841900395</id>
And this is how you push it in :-)
In the body of the new POST request, place the Atomelement you created above, using the application/atom+xml content type.
Final command:
a=$(grep Auth blog.2)
wget -q -O- --header="Authorization: GoogleLogin $a" --header 'content-type: application/atom+xml' --post-file=blog-entry.xml http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3110200838296430371/posts/defaultList all Blogs owned by user
Save XML description of all users blogs & tags into file 'blog.4'
wget -q -Oblog.4 --header="Authorization: GoogleLogin $a" http://www.blogger.com/feeds/default/blogsneat. Something worked as advertised...
Query a Blog
Save XML of all blog entries made in March, 2007 (in blog.5)
wget -O blog.5 'http://itilopia.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?updated-min=2007-03-01T00:00:00&updated-max=2007-03-31T23:59:59'Cute quote from doco (I wonder where to find *that* list?):
To query using other standard GData query parameters, just change the URL to use other parameters. (Note that Blogger doesn't support GData category queries or full-text search queries.)
Which might be here:
http://www.google.com/base/api/demo/html/demo.html#query
Deletes and Update/Edits
Too hard... Not clear. no examples of fully generated URI's. Tried to generate a URI for an item/article - failed.
here's the suggestions. untested...
Note the edit URI's of the events you'd like to delete:
wget ... | tidy -xml -wrap 999 | grep edit
Delete the event by using its edit URI; this is a two step process, because wget does not redirect correctly:
wget -nv -O- --header='Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=XXX' --header='X-HTTP-Method-Override: DELETE' --post-data='' 'URI'
Watch the output and note the redirect URI with gsessionid attached, then execute:
wget -nv -O- --header='Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=XXX' --header='X-HTTP-Method-Override: DELETE' --post-data='' 'URI?gsessionid=YYY'
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