MyBlogLog Web Services

Discover who visits your favorite sites, including your own! MyBlogLog powers the Recent Reader widget seen on many blog sidebars which feature photos of a sites' most recent readers. Use the API to query the MyBlogLog social network and pull meta-data associated with our user and site profiles. The MyBlogLog API enables social networking services on demand.

How Do I Get Started?

1. Get an Application ID
   

   To access data via the Yahoo! Developer Network, you will need to nail down an application ID of your very own. It's quick, free, and painless, and will help us enormously as we continue to expand our services.

2. Read the documentation
   

   Relax, you're halfway done. Take a few more minutes to read up on each of the MyBlogLog web services below that you're going to use. Play with the interactive browser-based API console.

Using the MyBlogLog API

Overview

The MyBlogLog API has the following methods:

community.authors

community.authors.list

Get list of community authors.

community.find

community.find.byid

Get information about a community.

community.find.byname

Find community id by name.

community.find.bytag

Find community by associated tag.

community.members

community.members.list

Get list of community members.

community.readers

community.readers.list

Get recent users for a community.

community.readers.list

community.readers.list.compare

Find shared readers across two communities.

community.tags

community.tags.list

Get tags for a community.

member.communities.joined

member.communities.joined.list

Get communities that a member has joined.

member.contacts

member.contacts.list

Get list of members' contacts.

member.find

member.find.byscreenname

Find member_id by username.

member.find.byid

Get member profile data including tags, sites authored, and most recent communities joined.

member.find.byservice

Lookup a member by service and their id.

member.messages

member.messages.list

Get messages for a member.

member.messages.public

member.messages.public.list

Get public messages for a member.

member.newwith

member.newwithcontacts

Get updates from member's New with My Neighborhood feed.

member.newwithme

Get updates from member's New with Me feed.

member.newwithmyworld

Get updates from member's New with My World feed.

member.tags

member.tags.list

Get a list of tags for a member.

members.find

members.find.bytag

Return list of member_id by tag.

test

test.echo

Test echo with random text message.

topic.find

topic.find.byname

Get topic update feed.

Try It Now!

We have the perfect console to help you get started for testing.

Acceptable Use

The MyBlogLog web services are limited to non-commercial use only. See information on our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses.