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Revision as of 14:24, 19 January 2010
The following section describes the HTTP requests that can be made to the SailBlogs server, and the XML response that is returned.
Base URL
All calls to the SailBlogs API will be made to the following URL:
http://www.sailblogs.com/api/sbapi.php
URL Parameters
auth
Authorization key. This is REQUIRED for all API calls.
http://www.sailblogs.com/api/sbapi.php?auth=ZGVtb0BzYWlsYmxvZ3MuY29tOmxhbmRyMHZlcg,,
dt
Datatype indicator. This tells the API what kind of information you're requesting. Possible values are:
- blog
- items
- contents
- comments
- curxp
- curpc
- test
dt=blog
http://www.sailblogs.com/api/sbapi.php?auth=ZGVtb0BzYWlsYmxvZ3MuY29tOmxhbmRyMHZlcg,,&dt=blog
Returns:
<xjournal>
<api_res>0</api_res>
<api_res_msg>Ok</api_res_msg>
<entry>
<msgID>114806</msgID>
<postDate>2009-09-29 11:09:37</postDate>
<title>This is test entry 3 with a lat/long included</title>
<location>Minneapolis</location>
<author></author>
<imageFile/>
<thumbnail/>
<teaser>
This is a blog post that includes a lat/long reference and a youtube video:
[%youtube*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lriRLdiAQE%v]
Line below video...
</teaser>
<body>
This is a blog post that includes a lat/long reference and a youtube video:
[%youtube*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lriRLdiAQE%v]
Line below video...
</body>
<comments>0</comments>
<nextmsg/>
<prevmsg/>
<latitude>44 57.22'N</latitude>
<longitude>193 22.36'W</longitude>
<declat>44.9537</declat>
<declong>-193.3727</declong>
</entry>
</xjournal>
