thanks, tobi.

This is what I currently get with getUsersBlogs, getRecentPost or getPost:

Client-Response-Num: 1 faultString: java.lang.Exception: java.lang.Exception: Error: AppKey is invalid or inactive.faultCode0

This occurs both if I use not value for appkey or "whatever".

I'm trying this in perl, and I'm not sure I've got the syntax right, so here are the relevant lines from the code:

my $b = Net::Blogger->new(server=>'www.antville.org:5056', username=>'katatonik', password=>'somepassword', blogid=>'commentsdump',debug=>1);

my ($ok,@p) = $b->getRecentPosts(numposts=>2) or die $b->LastError();# error nothing returned for $ok

my $post = $b->getPost(postid=>318103) or die $b->LastError();

but i don't have a clue of perl syntax... sorry. anyway, afaik we had to step back from the antville update performed yesterday. so it could be that the old version does not fully support the blogger api...?

The problem is that your Perl code, Ms K, is based on my hacked version of Blogger.pm. The official Net::Blogger module has a different, more cumbersome syntax. Its constructor doesn't take a 'server' argument. So with your code you are actually connecting to the default server which is Blogger's not antville.org. Hence the rejection of the appkey.

If I correctly interpret the documentation you can set the server URL with the 'Proxy' method:

my $b = Net::Blogger->new(username=>'katatonik', password=>'somepassword', blogid=>'commentsdump',debug=>1); $b->Proxy('www.antville.org:5056');

This is untested speculation, and I don't feel like testing this tonight. If you want I can send you my hacked Blogger.pm, though, so you can avoid the mess that is Net::Blogger.

Brilliant, oh Mighty Destructive One!

Yes, your code works. And unless thou continueth being evilishly destructive, kindly mail me the hacked module. Much obliged.

OK, I've toyed with an old idea, which was to display a list of my recent posts to antville blogs on another site.

Take a look at this page.

This is output of a perl file which uses Net::Blogger to get the 20 most recent posts to a certain antville blog, checks if they belong to a certain user and if so, prints out a link.

What I don't understand: for some blogs like mks, alo and kompetenzteam, I get my most recent 20 stories, but not my stories out of THE most recent 20 stories.

In other words: the userid which gets passed to the Blogger API when connecting is sometimes taken into account when getRecentPosts is called, but sometimes not. It doesn't seem to be a matter of antville blog settings, as there's no correlation between my status as subscriber/admin/contributor and this phenomenon.

I'd actually like to just get my most recent three or five stories. But there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to do this with Net::Blogger: there's getPost(by post id) and there's getRecentPosts(by number), but not, say, getRecentUserPosts.

Also, it doesn't seem to be possible to retrieve a story title via Net::Blogger. Or is it?

very interesting application of the blogger api, well done. just to let you know that afaik antville is already capable of providing a similar function. it just needs to be implemented for the users.