[bloggerDev] Re: How to query blogs without blogid?

Thanks for the detailed response, but I'm trying to access the public
blog information without a blogid.

For example, I can go to blogsearch.google.com and type in queries to
search all the blogs.
I would like to do that via an API.

I assumed the Blogger Api was correct for that, but it seems that the
Blogger API is for accessing personal blogs, not public blog
information.

Thanks
Bill

On Oct 2, 10:40 pm, Aratina Cage <aratina.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have not tried this, but these are the steps I would try at first:
>
> 1. authenticate the user for access to their list of blogs.
>
> 2. get the user's list of blogs and iterate through them, examining
> the title as in the example (see the link to the Retrieving Metafeed
> example below).
>
> 3. when you find the blog with the right title in the list, you can
> get its blogId by calling getId() on the Entry object (see the javadoc
> on Entry's parent class, BaseEntry:http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/javadoc/com/google/gdata/data/BaseE...()
> AND compare that method to the Atom feed Schema reference for a user's
> blog list:http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/docs/2.0/schema/blog_atom.rnc
> ).
>
> 4. once you have the blogId (specifically, the ID of one of the
> Entries in the Blog List of the Authenticated User or Manually Entered
> User), change the URL in your code to URL("http://www.blogger.com/
> feeds/" + blogId + "/posts/default") and then try your program again.
>
> If you don't want to go through all that, and instead just want to
> manually enter a blogId, go to the blog whose ID you want, view the
> page source, and search for "blodID=". The number that follows is the
> blog's ID. Be sure you change your URL to the correct one as in Step
> 4!
>
> Steps 1 & 2 can be learned fromhttp://code.google.com/apis/blogger/docs/2.0/developers_guide_java.ht...
>
> I would also like to add to their explanation in the Retrieving
> Metafeed example above of how to manually enter the user ID, which
> apparently allows you to bypass authentication in Step 1. I believe
> that in their explanation under the code, what they mean by "different
> user" is a user other than the one who is currently authenticated:
>
> "[http://www.blogger.com/feeds/default/blogs] is the default
> metafeed URL; it returns a list of blogs for the currently
> authenticated user.  To access a feed for a different
> [unauthenticated] user, you can put the [unauthenticated] user's ID in
> place of [the word] default in the metafeed URL [ which would look
> like this->http://www.blogger.com/feeds/differentUserId/blogs].  The
> [unauthenticated] user's ID is the string of digits at the end of the
> user's profile URL [ which looks like this->http://www.blogger.com/profile/userId
> ]."
>
> It's all very confusing the way they worded it because if a person is
> not authenticated and you have to manually enter their userId, then
> they are not necessarily the user.
>
> --Aratina Cage
>
> On Oct 1, 8:08 am, wkoscho <wkos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I would like to execute read-only text queries against the
> > BloggerService but I get errors unless I pass blogid.  Is there a way
> > to execute read-only queries without blogId ?
>
> > Also, i'm not sure what URL to use even if this is possible, all of
> > the examples pass blogid in the URL.
>
> > Any help is appreciated; sample code would be great if someone knows
> > how to do this.
>
> > The code I'm currently using is:
>
> >     // Is this URL correct?
> >     URL feedUrl = new URL("http://www.blogger.com/feeds/posts/
> > default");
>
> >     Query query = new Query(feedUrl);
> >     query.setFullTextQuery(textQuery);
>
> >     BloggerService bservice = new BloggerService("myapplication");
> >     Feed resultFeed = bservice.query(query, Feed.class);
>
> > Thanks
> > Bill

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