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Blogger

Note: Blogger has played an important role in the history of weblog systems, which leads to a somewhat confusing double-meaning for the system’s name.

Blogger is primarily a weblog service, operated by Google, but some systems describe their weblog software as "Blogger-compatible." This terminology is outdated refers to an older version of the Blogger system.

If your weblog system is described as "Blogger-compatible", do not use these instructions. Select "Other Blogger-compatible" from the software popup, and enter the required configuration information from your weblog system’s documentation.

How to get the RPC URL

The RPC URL for Blogger weblogs is contained in the homepage HTML source code, tagged with the label "service.post". For example, the MarsEdit test blog on Blogspot contains the following line:

<link rel="service.post" type="application/atom+xml" title="MarsEdit on Blogger - Atom" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2742621948488638421/posts/default" />

The RPC URL is the URL contained in the "href" tag above. In this example, "http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2742621948488638421/posts/default".

How to get the Blog ID

The Blog ID for New Blogger is the numeric portion of the RPC URL. In this example, "2742621948488638421".