Blogs

  • The v2.0 JSON API will be discontinued on September 30th, 2024, and users should update to the latest API version for continued functionality.

  • A Blog is the primary data structure containing Posts, Pages, and Comments, accessible through the Blogger API.

  • The blogger.blogs.get method allows retrieval of individual Blog resources by their unique ID.

  • Each Blog resource includes metadata like name, description, publication date, update date, URL, and counts of posts and pages.

  • Detailed properties of a Blog resource, such as ID, name, description, publication and update timestamps, URL, and locale information, are available within the JSON response.

Important: We will discontinue support for the v2.0 JSON API on September 30th, 2024. To ensure continued functionality, update your applications that rely on the v2.0 JSON API to the latest API version. For the latest version, use the links in the left-side navbar.

A Blog is the root data class for the Blogger API. Each blog has a series of Posts and Pages, and each Post has a series of Comments. 

Methods

To retrieve an individual Blogs Resource, use the blogger.blogs.get method.

get
Gets one blog by id.

Resource Representations

A Blogs Resource contains all the metadata for a blog, along with the counts of Posts and Pages children.

{
  "kind": "blogger#blog",
  "id": value,
  "name": value,
  "description": value,
  "published": value,
  "updated": value,
  "url": value,
  "selfLink": value,
  "posts": {
    "totalItems": value,
    "selfLink": value
  },
  "pages": {
    "totalItems": value,
    "selfLink": value
  },
  "locale": {
    "language": value,
    "country": value,
    "variant": value
  }
}
Property Name Value Description Notes
kind string The kind of this entry. Always blogger#blog.
id long The identifier for this resource.
name string The name of this blog. This is usually displayed in Blogger as the blog's title. May include HTML.
description string The description of this blog. This is usually displayed in Blogger underneath the blog's title. May include HTML.
published datetime RFC 3339 date-time when this blog was published.
updated datetime RFC 3339 date-time when this blog was last updated.
url string The URL where this blog is published.
posts object The container for this blog's posts.
posts.totalItems integer The total number of posts on this blog.
pages object The container for this blog's pages.
pages.totalItems integer The total number of pages for this blog.
locale object The locale this blog is set to.
locale.language string The language this blog is authored in.
locale.country string The country this blog's locale is set to.
locale.variant string The language variant this blog is authored in.