Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Getting started with the Blogger REST API

I have been struggling with this for quite sometime. The struggle is to understand how blogger rest APIs work, not how to hook it up with React. I think in general, google provides very clumsy documentation.

This blog is to demonstrate, how quickly can we integrate with blogger APIs.
Note, we will be doing the integration by exposing our API key and blog id, there is even a way to authenticate to the blogger service but I am still getting my heads around that.

So let’s get started.
To begin, you will first need to request access to Blogger API Service.
Follow https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library
Search for “Google search console API”
Click on "API & services"


You will see Blogger API V3. Click on it!


Once you get the API key you would need blog id, I found it from my blogger website . One way to get it is just click on blogger icon and check the url.