Page Summary
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This method retrieves a blog by its ID.
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Authorization is required for private blogs but not for public ones.
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The request uses an HTTP GET method and requires the
blogIdparameter. -
Optionally, you can specify
maxPoststo retrieve a maximum number of posts along with the blog. -
A successful response returns a Blogs resource in the response body.
Retrieves a blog by its ID. Try it now or see an example .
Authorization is required if the blog is private. If the blog is public, then this method can be called without authorization.
Request
HTTP request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/blogger/v3/blogs/ blogId
Parameters
blogId
string
maxPosts
unsigned integer
Request body
Do not supply a request body with this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns a Blogs resource in the response body.
Examples
Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).
Java
Uses the Java client library
// The BlogId for the http://code.blogger.com/ blog .
String CODE_BLOG_ID = "3213900" ;
// Configure the Java API Client for Installed Native App
HttpTransport HTTP_TRANSPORT = new NetHttpTransport();
JsonFactory JSON_FACTORY = new JacksonFactory();
// Configure for the Installed App OAuth2 flow.
Credential credential = OAuth2Native.authorize(HTTP_TRANSPORT,
JSON_FACTORY, new LocalServerReceiver(),
Arrays.asList(BloggerScopes. BLOGGER ));
// Construct the Blogger API access facade object.
Blogger blogger = Blogger.builder(HTTP_TRANSPORT, JSON_FACTORY)
.setApplicationName( "Blogger-BlogGet-Snippet/1.0" )
.setHttpRequestInitializer(credential).build();
// This is the request action that you can configure before sending the request.
Get blogGetAction = blogger.blogs().get(CODE_BLOG_ID); // Restrict the result content to just the data we need.
blogGetAction.setFields( "description,name,posts/totalItems,updated" );
// This step sends the request to the server.
Blog blog = blogGetAction.execute();
// Now we can navigate the response.
System. out .println( "Name: " +blog.getName());
System. out .println( "Description: " +blog.getDescription());
System. out .println( "Post Count: " +blog.getPosts().getTotalItems());
System. out .println( "Last Updated: " +blog.getUpdated());
Try it!
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