PowerBlogs.Com Development

XML RPC interface

Powerblogs now supports posting with an XML RPC interface. Specifically, users can use programs which support the MetaWeblog API with the URL http://blogname.powerblogs.com/admin/xmlrpc.pl — this might be especially handy for users who want to post from PDAs.

It also supports the blogger API, but the blogger API is pretty terrible — it doesn't even support titles. At some point, I'll probably implement as much compatibility with the MovableType API as possible, and likely also implement a Powerblogs-specific XML RPC API (I am toying with the notion of writing a java post composition program to go with Powerblogs to make disconnected post composition easier, but this is a really long-term goal, not anything which is going to happen soon).

Posted by Chris on Sunday August 7, 2005 at 3:37am.
antimedia (mail) (www):
Have you given any thought to tying the categories in with Technorati tags? Is that doable?
8.7.2005 2:36pm
Chris (www):
I haven't yet. We're doing a lot of thinking about tags and other semantic management tools, so I'll keep this idea in mind.
8.7.2005 4:52pm
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