0

I am wondering How a blog software such as Windows Live writer reads/updates so many blogs such as Telligent, Wordpress, Blogger blogs.

Is there a commom web services standard exposed by these blog providers?

I have a telligent blog hosted on blogs.msdn.com and looking to access it contents in my custom web program. Any idea how can I do that ?

Madhur Ahuja
  • 22,211
  • 14
  • 71
  • 124
  • They appear to have a REST API - http://telligent.com/community/developers/w/wiki/platform-api-documentation.aspx . WordPress has a PHP API, not sure if they have a REST one now. – arunkumar Aug 07 '11 at 17:40
  • Thats proprietary .. thats my questions is.. Does WLW has seperate implementation for each of its provider ? – Madhur Ahuja Aug 07 '11 at 17:44
  • Going by this Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Writer , under Integration it looks like there is a WLW API that blogs can use to link to it. Regarding WP and other blog integration, my guess is they would have a separate interface for each platform since there is no unified API for writing to blogs. – arunkumar Aug 07 '11 at 17:52

1 Answers1

3

Windows Live Writer uses the MetaWeblog API to access blog and post information. Telligent's endpoint can be found at /blogs/metablog.ashx. Many other blog platforms use the same standard (although some such as Wordpress add additional features). The XML-RPC can be helpful when calling Meta Weblog services.

Rhys Godfrey
  • 220
  • 2
  • 10