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BlogInfo Query

The bloginfo query provides info on what blog, if any, is associated with a given URL.

The call is made using a REST-ful interface. Send either a HTTP GET or a HTTP POST to http://api.technorati.com/bloginfo?key=[apikey]&url=[blog url] with mandatory parameters "key" and "url" and one optional parameter to request various formats.

Parameters

Mandatory

key: Your Technorati API key, which you can obtain on our API key page.
url: Set this to the target URL. Prefixes http:// and www. are optional.

Optional

format: Results are returned in XML by default. You may optionally request the results in RSS 2.0 using a parameter value of rss. We plan to add Atom and XOXO support in the near future.

Response

Success

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- generator="Technorati API version 1.0 /bloginfo" -->
<!DOCTYPE tapi PUBLIC "-//Technorati, Inc.//DTD TAPI 0.02//EN" "http://api.technorati.com/dtd/tapi-002.xml">
<tapi version="1.0">
<document>
<result>
  <url>[URL]</url>
  <weblog>
    <name>[blog name]</name>
    <url>[blog URL]</url>
    <rssurl>[blog RSS URL]</rssurl>
    <atomurl>[blog Atom URL]</atomurl>
    <inboundblogs>[inbound blogs]</inboundblogs>
    <inboundlinks>[inbound links]</inboundlinks>
    <lastupdate>[date blog last updated]</lastupdate>
    <rank>[blog ranking]</rank>
    <lang></lang>
    <foafurl>[blog foaf URL]</foafurl>
  </weblog>
  <inboundblogs>[inbound blogs]</inboundblogs>
  <inboundlinks>[inbound links]</inboundlinks>
</result>
</document>
</tapi>