July 2, 2008

  • Live Writer and ScribeFire API

    UPDATE – 8/3/11 – please note: unfortunately we’ve had to suspend support for the API due to inordinate usage by spammers. We do not yet have a timeframe for re-enabling support for the API, but we are actively developing our own smartphone app, which we hope to have available soon.

    We’ve gotten a bunch of requests for an API for applications like Windows Live Writer and Firefox add-on ScribeFire, so . . . here they are! Instructions are under the cut.

    If you were curious, we used the MetaWeblog API to make the programs work for Xanga.

    Live Writer:

    You already have a weblog set up! Choose the second option.


    Choose “another weblog service”.


    Enter http://api.xanga.com/metaweblogapi as your homepage URL and your Xanga login information as your username and password.


    Select Metaweblog API and enter the same URL as you did in the last step.


    You’re set – blog away!

    ScribeFire:


    Click “Configure Manually”.


    Choose “MetaWeblog API” from the blog system type menu and enter http://api.xanga.com/metaweblogapi as your URL.


    Use your Xanga username and password to log in.


    Hit Next, Finish and start blogging.

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