Squarespace 6 blogs
  • ploafmasterploafmaster
    Hi there,

    I was wondering whether anybody had set up a Squarespace 6 blog with manual settings. I tried the auto-detection method and it didn't seem to work, but I can't seem to find the API endpoint URL and blog ID the way folks have indicated (I think that info is elsewhere for Squarespace 6).

    Any help?
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Accepted Answer
    Hi there - unfortunately Squarespace is not supporting 3rd party API access for Squarespace 6, yet. The good news is I have been in touch with them and they have been very enthusiastic about a desire to do it eventually. I guess they are facing some challenges relating to the flexibility of the new platform, and how to get it working again with an API like what MarsEdit uses.

    I'm sure it wouldn't hurt things to drop Squarespace support a line just to let them know you would be appreciative to have XMLPRC API support for Squarespace 6.

    Daniel
  • ploafmasterploafmaster
    Sounds like a good idea - I'll do that. It's especially desirable to use MarsEdit since the post editor in Squarespace 6 is a shadow of what was in v5.

    Thanks for the answer!
  • GabrielPGabrielP
    I agree and have already sent Squarespace support a note. It's the only thing that's keeping me from switching to v6 for one of my sites. Can't live without MarsEdit.
  • mikestanleymikestanley
    The inability of use MarsEdit is actually preventing me from signing up for Squarespace. I have several blogs on a mix of Wordpress.com (paying them to let my domain point to them) as well as a couple of goof-off ones on a web-hosting account at NameCheap.

    I'm sick enough of having to keep Wordpress updated myself on my web-hosting account and tired of the limitations of Wordpress.com hosting, and I'm willing to pay for Squarespace, but I'm not taking 3 steps backwards and using some cruddy web-based editor.
  • jeffjeff
    Is SquareSpace 6 still not compatible with MarsEdit? I am not properly setting it up if it is supposed to work..
  • TonyPTonyP
    Any update here? Should we be making feature requests with Squarespace support?
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Hi folks - yeah, if you are interested in MarsEdit support for Squarespace 6 you should definitely be asking them to support an API that would allow 3rd party clients such as MarsEdit. Key words to ask for would be "an XMLRPC API like Squarespace 5 supported."
  • tophermartinitophermartini
    Can the JSON API in Squarespace 6 be adapted to work with MarsEdit?

    http://blog.squarespace.com/blog/your-data-everywhere
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    Hi tophermartini - from the description it's a read-only access to the content of a blog. So for example it would not be useful for adding new posts, editing existing posts, or uploading media to a Squarespace 6 site.
  • tophermartinitophermartini
    Thanks for the info Daniel, are there any workarounds you're aware of to author content for Squarespace 6 sites or is the XMLRPC API the only option?
  • Daniel JalkutDaniel Jalkut
    As far as I know there are no workarounds apart from using the web interface to Squarespace or their own proprietary app for iOS. I haven't looked into trying to hack a solution apart from XMLRPC because it's hard enough to keep support for systems going when the systems are cooperative, unfortunately I can't keep up with a situation where I would be trying to hack something together with an uncooperative service.
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