Supported Blogs

This page introduce blogs supported by BlogSync and how to use BlogSync with them.

Supported Blogs

BlogSync uses APIs provide by BSP to operate a blog, Currently BlogSync support 2 types of API: GDATA API and metaWeblog API。

Following is a list of BSP who support these APIs

BSP / Platform API type supported by BlogSync Configuration
Blogger GDATA API Perfect detail
Windows Live spaces metaWeblog API Perfect (However, due to the limit of MS implementations, only most recent 20 posts can be read. If you want to read more, try RSS feed.) detail
Blogs powered by WordPress metaWeblog API Perfect detail
Blogs powered by Drupal metaWeblog API Perfect detail
CSDN Blog metaWeblog API Perfect
bokeland metaWeblog API All functions are ok but publish time is not correct

For blogs don't provide API support, BlogSync can read from its RSS feed, and then copy posts to other blogs.

Add Blogger blogs

Follow these steps:

  1. In the "Source manager" page, click "Add" button at the lower left corner of the page
  2. Choose GDATA API
  3. Choose Blogger
  4. Click "Visit Google Accounts to proceed authorization". You will be automatically taken to Google Accounts website.
  5. If you have not logged in your Google account, you'll be asked to.
  6. If you have logged in, Google will ask you if you authorise miian.com to access your blogger account. Choose yes.
  7. Then you will be taken back to BlogSync. Please wait a few seconds for BlogSync to examine your authorisation. Once the authorisation is successful, your blogs within that account will be listed, you can then choose the ones that you want to use with BlogSync and add them to source manager.

Add Drupal blog

Before you add a drupal blog, please make sure your blog and blog api modules are enabled and "blog post" setting are checked in blog api setting page (admin/settings/blogapi).
And you'll need these information:

API address
The API address of a Drupal site is "http://your.drupal.site/xmlrpc.php".
For example, your site is http://yoursite.com/ , then your API should be http://yoursite.com/xmlrpc.php
User name
User name is the one that you use to log in drupal
Password
It's the one that you use to log in drupal

How to add drupal blog to BlogSync:

  1. Click on the "Add" button to enter the add source page
  2. Choose metaWeblog api
  3. Input API address, username and password, Click add
  4. Wait a few seconds while BlogSync is checking your account. If everything is ok, all accessible content types will be listed by BlogSync, you can then choose those that you want to work with BlogSync and click "add"

Add Windows Live Spaces

API support in Windows Live Spaces is not enabled by default, you'll have to enable it by enabling email publish feature in the Live Spaces setting page and set a security code for it.

To add Windows Live Spaces to BlogSync:

  1. Start BlogSync, Go to add source page.
  2. Choose metaWeblog API
  3. Enter this as API address: https://storage.msn.com/storageservice/MetaWeblog.rpc
  4. Enter you blog name as username, please notice that this blog name is not your msn passport name, it's the name of your blog. If you blog is someblog.space.live.com, then the user name should be "someblog".
  5. Enter the security code that you have set in the email publish setting as password.
  6. Click add and it's done.

Please notice that Windows Live Spaces only allow application to read 20 articles through the API, so if you are trying to copy contents from Live Spaces to other blogs, you'll have to find a way to backup your articles to RSS feed format and then using the RSS read functionality to copy them to another blog.

Add WordPress blog

To add a WordPress blog, You have to prepare following informations.

API address
The API address of WordPress is http://url.to.your.blog/xmlrpc.php.
If your blog address is http://yoursite.com/ then your API address should be http://yoursite.com/xmlrpc.php
If your blog address is http://yoursite.com/wordpress/ ，then your API address should be http://yoursite.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
User name
User name is the name that you log in to WordPress
Password
The password is the one that you use to log in WordPress

Then follow these steps:

  1. Start BlogSync, enter add source page
  2. Choose metaWeblog api
  3. Enter API address, username and password, click add
  4. Done.