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 which support these APIs

BSP / Platform API type supported by BlogSync Configuration
Blogger GDATA API Perfect detail
MSN Live spaces metaWeblog API Perfect(Due to limitations by MS, BlogSync can only read 20 posts from it) 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 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.

Blogger

Follow those steps:

  1. Enter add source page
  2. Choose GDATA API
  3. Choose Blogger
  4. Click "Visit Google Accounts to proceed authorization", then BlogSync will take you to Google Accounts site.
  5. If you are not logged in, Google Account will ask you to, Please login your account.
  6. If you are logged in, Google will ask you if you authorize miian.com to access your blogger account. Choose yes.
  7. Then you will come back to BlogSync, and it will exam your authorization, if succeded, your blogs will be listed, please choose the ones that you want to use with BlogSync and add them to source manager.

Drupal

Before you add a drupal blog, you need these:

API address
The API address of a Drupal site is http://url.to.your.drupal/xmlrpc.php.
If your site is http://yoursite.com/ , then your API should be http://yoursite.com/xmlrpc.php
If your site is http://yoursite.com/drupal/ , then it should be http://yoursite.com/drupal/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

Blog API is a core module in Drupal, but by default, it's disabled.
So you have to enable this module in admin/build/modules page.
Besides blog, Drupal has many other content types, you can also choose them to access with blog API.

After the setting is done, launch BlogSync

  1. Enter add source page
  2. Choose metaWeblog api
  3. Input API address, username and password, Click add
  4. If everything is ok, After a while BlogSync will list all accessable content types, you can choose some or all of them to add to BlogSync

MSN Live Spaces

By default, MSN Live Spaces does not support API access. To enable it, you have to enter Live Spaces setting, enable email publish and set a security code, and remember it.

Then open BlogSync

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

WordPress

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