Hi Raj, I think I saw two questions in your post, the first was how to find the comments and the second was a way to get the blogID and postID. I think I know an answer to the first question which doesn't require you to find the blogID and postID, but I'll answer that too because there are cases where having those IDs comes in handy.
I assume that you're getting the list of posts with a URL like this: http://[blogName].blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default You asked specifically about finding the comments feed URL, and it turns out that a link to the comments feed is included in the post entries that you find from your initial query for a list of the posts in the blog. Each post entry has a couple of link's which point to "replies". The link that you are interested in has a rel of 'replies' and a type of 'application/atom+xml' (instead of html/text). The comment link element looks like this: <link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http:// [blogName].blogspot.com/feeds/[postID]/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/> I guess the simplest way to get the comments and post contents would be to get a feed containing all of the posts then perform a GET on the Atom replies link in each of the entries. How does this look to you? Now about the blogID and postID. There are a few places you can look to see the blogID and the postID for a blog post and I think most of the following information is in the protocol developers guide (thought it may be scattered around): http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/developers_guide_protocol.html Once you get the feed of your blog posts, you can look at each entry to see the blogID and postID. A good place to find this is in the edit link of a post's entry. The edit link looks something like this: <link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/[blogID]/posts/default/[postID]'> </link> You could also look at the contents of the id within the post's entry. The id is in the following form: <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-[blogID].post-[postID]</id> Parsing the above id sounds like it was your original idea, so I'm not sure if parsing the URL in the edit link would be any easier. Happy coding, Jeff On Oct 31, 2:35 am, Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using Google data API to download post and comments to load into > my local database. I am able to fetch the post. To fetch the comments, > I need blog id and post id. Does anyone know how and from where to > reterive this programatically? I believe you can user > AtomEntry.id.AbsoluteURI and then do a substring to get the blog id > and post id. I was wondering if anyone know a simpler way of doing > this? Or a simpler way of downloading the comments for a post? > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Thanks > > Raj --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
