July 2, 2008
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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.
Comments (91)
cool
first
edit// dangit -.- I read through the entire thing first!! .. i think :’(
coolness.
Excellent. Now I can use Live Writer and it’s myriad plugins. I are a happy camper. Now, if only people would read my blogs I’d be in hog’s heaven.
I wish i knew what this was
I’ve never used ScribeFire, but now I want to. ^_^
Awesome!
This is great. Keep up the good work!
Cool. But one question. if we change our user name, will we have to go through this again or will it update automatically?
Great Job!
Hey thanks even though that was auto reply to me making this site.
Anyways
i want you to know i’m going to try my best to make Xanga the new thing
again. Everyone knows that your popularity was taken by myspace and i
must say i have myspace too. But im willing to do what i can to help
Yay!
Wait…
What does it do?
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And the advantage of this is?
Xanga isn’t just about posting a blog, it’s the whole community experience. If I just wanted a blog for the world to see I would go back to Blogger.
Sweet!
@MrMysterious - This is useful if you want to use 3rd party tools to post to Xanga.
that sounds pretty cool
WOOOHOOO!!! Finally!
I’ve tested posting from Flickr, Google Docs, and Ecto (a Mac blogging client) and it all works wonderfully… thanks Xanga!!!!one!1!
good job
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Coo-well!
Thanx for that idea… I installed ScribeFire and it works! Great Kudos!
Awesome! great job!
Hey, It just can’t be any easier than that, Did i see 6 or 7 printscreens.
I’m just like W.O.W.
awesome….
yeah!!!!
Sweet!!!! Now I can set up and really go crazy…(not that I don’t already)
another great feature – thanks! so I have a biggie for you… would it be possible to get Xanga into one of the online photo book sites like blurb.com? You can turn your archives into a book! but no xanga yet… just those “other” blog sites haha. You’d save me a TON of copy and pasting for when I do get around to making this hardback journal of years of my blogs.
Keep up the great work guys – love you!!
Keep up the super work - Xanga is number #1 to me in the blogging world.
too cool!
great! nice to know that
wow..wish I knew more about this stuff..have on idea what it is or if it would help…but thanks I will try to watch and see more…take care all…always working to help..:) have a great day…Lee
great stuff xanga…but what is this???
We’ve added support for Xanga to ScribeFire, so after the next release, you will be able to just type in your Xanga blog URL, and it will automatically choose the correct settings for you. Thanks for the API!
Chris Finke
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Can you create an add-on for Picasa!? I would love to post pictures to Xanga the same way I can to Facebook right from Picasa. It’s so fast and it imports all the captions.
ScribeFire works awsome and keep up the good work
Looks exciting! I’ll have to try it out!!
Hey Guys
FINALLY!
Thanks!
finally! yay!
This is great! I am able to use Word 2007 to publish directly to my Xanga. I do have one question. It would seem that I can’t publish pictures in my post using Word, only text. Am I doing something wrong or is that feature just not available yet?
I’m doing the happy dance. My Live Writer now works with Xanga!!
i dont know what this is
I was wondering how to get it to work, thank’s for finally putting out how.
FINALLY!!!
YOU GUYS ROCK!!!
This is great.
awesome! thanks!
Does this work for Revelife and/or other Xanga networks?
Yay, thank you!
Seems cool. It’s kind of like a salad spinner; didn’t even know they existed or think I had a need for one until my roommate got one. Okay, actually, I still don’t really have a need for one, but that’s beside the point. But, um, yah, it seems interesting.
great news, good support! Respect!
and what about “Semagic”? Does it suppots Xanga?
This is great…. I love it
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awesome. thank you
Is there a way to determine what the errors given out by this metaweblog implementation mean? I have a MW client that works properly with LiveSpaces, WordPress, and several other metaweblog implementations, but that gets an error back from Xanga. Unfortunately, the fault string is, at best, obtuse: “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.”
Any direction would be appreciated.
cooool!
this is pretty cool. it means i can draft up blogs when i’m offline. yay!
but if i put in tags through Live Writer, they don’t show up as Xanga tags. they show up in the body of the blog as links. it’d be better if they went in as Xanga tags.
thanks! Have to try it out…but when I chose Xanga instead of the MetaApi…does it make a difference?
Well done! Awesome!
Good…NOW i know how to make that LiveOne crap work
sweet !!!! i should really try using live writer now then….
This is great…got it set up in ScribeFire likity split…but can you post to your Pulse? If I could post to my Pulse like do to (ahem) Twitter with an extension I’d be a happy Xangan…
I have never used this before but I am excited to try it out.
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Great!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmm… Do you have the details for Blog Spot with FTP style data?
awesome!!
thx xanga!!
Thank you so much! Found you on Yahoo! search.
QUESTION: This post helped me much. Both ScribeFire and Live Writer work well BUT…
They both tell me that my blog doesn’t support uploading photos through either program. Is there solution to this?
I see this is an old thread…can’t seem to find a ‘configure manually’ option in ScribeFire 3.3. When I go to set it up it shows a ‘no service selected’ error but there isn’t an option to choose. Any ideas?
This doesn’t work any longer for scribefire. There is no manual config button and it appears that it is impossible to use it with xanga at this time. It comes back with a no service chosen error. If someone has the answer…let me know.
i have some question about MetaWeblog API.
i upload images / photos via the MetaWeblog API of metaWeblog.newMediaObject.
it is successful.
but these images / photos not show in photoblog.
does xanga has any method for developer to set / edit the images showing in photoblog?
thanks
there’s a new interface for the Windows Live Writer, but the screen shots still works, thanks!
GREAT!! Thank you!!!
Thanks so much!
I can finally use Live Writer!
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i can’t make it these days, what happen?
I’ve been getting API errors for nearly a week. Is it just down or has this been discontinued?
It seems that the API is not working for almost a week. Is it down or it’s gone permanently?
the API suspension is disappointing, to say the least.
so is your support response. I had to manually check to see if my support query had been answered and saw the answer only cause i came to this post to look for clues in the comments.
I am a long-time user who is so frustrated. First email posting was unreliable (which convinced me to NOT pay for premium), the Pulse posting via Ping.fm was presumably disabled without explanation or announcement (that I’ve been able to find, not even response to my direct questions about this issues via help page and email) and now the API has been disabled (and from the sounds of it, may be down for the count because of a phone app in the works, which wouldn’t address my issues at all). I really feel like Xanga is giving me the push off. I try and try to keep my blog here because of the great community, but the disappearing or malfunctioning features may finally push me to quit.
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