[bloggerDev] Re: Blogger API not pulling list of blogs for some users. - Jeff Scudder - com.googlegroups.bloggerdev

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From	Sent On	Attachments
Sean	16 Jun 2008 12:30
Alex Mills	16 Jun 2008 20:28
Jeff Scudder	17 Jun 2008 10:15
Jeff Scudder	17 Jun 2008 14:24
Alex Mills	17 Jun 2008 19:25
Jeff Scudder	20 Jun 2008 10:24

Subject:	[bloggerDev] Re: Blogger API not pulling list of blogs for some users.
From:	Jeff Scudder (j....@google.com)
Date:	06/20/2008 10:24:37 AM
List:	com.googlegroups.bloggerdev

Hi Alex,

Yes those are the IDs I was looking for. If I understand your original email correctly, it sounds like you are you are not getting a list of your blogs when you are authenticating as 01521901084933574731. Is that correct? If you have a packet capture or logs which indicate what the server responds with when you request your blog list I think it would help as I haven't been able to reproduce so far.

Thank you,

Jeff

On Jun 17, 7:26 pm, Alex Mills <mill...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey,

I added a response to my other discussion, by userID do you mean the number that appears when you look at their profile? If so here is the ID for my main blog:

http://www.blogger.com/profile/18382979182059548659

Here is the profile on my test blog:

http://www.blogger.com/profile/01521901084933574731

Cheers Alex Mills

On Jun 18, 5:24 am, Jeff Scudder <j....@google.com> wrote:

One piece of information that would also help, would be the server's response when you query the list of the current user's blogs
(http://www.blogger.com/feeds/default/blogs). If you've never done packet captures before, you might find this article helpful.

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=71567&topic=12022

Or if you'd rather debug from within PHP, you can use something like the following

$gp->enableRequestDebugLogging('/tmp/gp_requests.log');

(I found that code snippet
here:http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/developers_guide_php.html )

Cheers,

Jeff

On Jun 17, 10:16 am, Jeff Scudder <j....@google.com> wrote:

Hi Sean and Alex,

Could you send me a list of userIDs on which you are seeing this behavior? Sean, since you mentioned the account type, that might be a good thing to try. If it is a problem with the account type, you should receive an error response from the server when you log in. I looked at the source code for Zend_Gdata, and I'm not sure if you can set the accountType, you might have to modify the library's source code. Could you try changing the following line in Zend/Gdata/ ClientLogin.php

$client->setParameterPost('accountType', 'HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE'); to $client->setParameterPost('accountType', 'GOOGLE');

After this change are you able to log in as these users? If you are able to log in, then having blogs not show up in your blog list feed may be a different problem.

Thank you,

Jeff

On Jun 16, 8:28 pm, Alex Mills <mill...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Sean,

Finally someone else is having similar issues. I have been developing a desktop editor for Blogger that runs on leopard. Everything was working good and then about a month ago I was unable to access my main blog account, thinking it was because it was so old (GMail Private testing) I'm just about to release a new version of my program and now my test blog will not show up (on a different Account). I'm using a similar process where it returns nothing when using my login details fromhttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/default/blogs. I have not changed any code in my program, if I fire up the BloggerSample app that came with the GData API, it also cannot find the blogs on either of my accounts.

I'm following the correct procedures as outlined by both the Object-C GData API documentation and the Blogger API Documentation. At this point I have found no fix for this which I know is no help to you but I have been trying to find an answer to this for a long time. If we can build some momentum about this issue, someone at google might step up to fix the problem.

I'm going to write a post on this discussion on my blog, to help get some attention to this issue. Our products rely on this API and if it doesnt work we have a serious problem.

Cheers Alex Mills

On Jun 17, 3:30 am, Sean <rag...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have about 2500 or some-odd using Blogger through my system and recently some users are having difficulty pulling their Blog list to select from a list.

Process goes:

1. Enter Blogger username/password 2. Select blogs 3. Save settings

I test this on myself and on the users who are having problems. The results are inconsistent.

If I use the sample PHP script
located:http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/developers_guide_php.html, and run it with my credentials, it pulls a list of blogs fine.

Now, using it with my user's details, it returns nothing. Blank.

Some suggest it might be being caused by the type of account (Google Apps, Mail, etc...), but it's impossible to really test.

Does anyone know what might be going on?

I'm using client login type and polling
thehttp://www.blogger.com/feeds/default/blogs endpoint to get blog list.

Thanks in advance,