http://simonwillison.net/2002-06-14T07:02:13+00:00Simon Willison2002-06-14T07:02:13+00:002002-06-14T07:02:13+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2002/Jun/14/metaWeblogAPI/#atom-tag

<p>I'm itching to get an XML-RPC interface to this blog up and running so I can start playing with blogging tools (or roll my own in <a href="http://www.pythoncard.org/">PythonCard</a>). It looks like Dave Winer's <a href="http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi">MetaWeblog API</a> is just what I need. It describes an XML-RPC interface with 3 methods: <code>metaWeblog.newPost</code>, <code>metaWeblog.editPost</code> and <code>metaWeblog.getPost</code>. More importantly, the standard supports complete flexibility in the data that is sent along with the request. My entries consist of a body, an optional permalink (one is generated if none is specified), optional categories and an optional search string for a "Google It!" link if one is required. The MetaWeblog API looks ideally suited to handling this, and is fully extensible should I change the format of my entries in the future.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/blogging">blogging</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/metaweblogapi">metaweblogapi</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xml-rpc">xml-rpc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pythoncard">pythoncard</a></p>