Re: [bloggerDev] Re: Secure read-only blog access via API?

Well, the next step is to set up your code so that it will run on a server somewhere. Being the google dev rel that I am, I'm going to suggest Google AppEngine, and I am quite happy to help you and review what you are doing.

brett

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:59 PM, jjb <onephatcat@earthlink.net> wrote:

Hi Brett, thanks for responding. I'm not sure - the blogger isn't a
programmer, where would I look to begin to understand how to do that?
I can test on my own blogspot account, but I have never tried to
interact with Google api's till yesterday, when I wrote the prototype
app I mentioned, which just gets a list of postings from the exposed
xml feed.

 - Joel

On Nov 6, 9:23 pm, Brett Morgan <brettmor...@google.com> wrote:
> Joel,
>
> I'm going to have to do some research. I haven't seen anything in the way of
> delegated responsibility like read only accounts in the google api system
> yet.
>
> My initial response would be for the owner of the blog you are wanting
> content from to run say an AppEngine instance with the Blogger GData APIs
> libs, and then expose a limited rest style API for you. That way he can
> verify what he's exposing is read only, and also verify who is accessing his
> feeds.
>
> Does that help?
>
> brett
>
>
>

> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, jjb <onephat...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > I'm writing an app that grabs the xml from blogger.com for a blogger
> > and gets a list of media items. Unfortunately the blog I'm writing my
> > app for has locked down the blog because he has been getting hit by
> > other sites that take his feed and use it as their own.
>
> > Currently one can only get the videos and photos by going to the
> > site.
>
> > Is there a way that he and I can work together so that I can build an
> > application that can be authorized to get everything from the blog
> > securely?
>
> > I don't want my app to have the right to post anything, so this needs
> > to be a secure read only authorization, for the unlikely situation
> > where the app itself gets hacked.
>
> >  - Joel
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