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Getting Started

1. Get an Application ID

   To access data via the Yahoo! Developer Network, you will need to nail down an application ID of your very own. It's quick, free, and painless, and will help us enormously as we continue to expand our services.

2. Read the Fine Manual

   Relax, you're halfway done. Please finish this page, and then take a few more minutes to read up on each of the MyBlogLog Web Services that you're going to use.

3. New To the Developer Network?

   Please check out the Frequently Asked Questions.

MyBlogLog Web Services

community.authors

• community.authors.list

  Get list of community authors.

community.find

• community.find.byid

  Get information about a community.

• community.find.byname

  Find community id by name.

• community.find.bytag

  Find community by associated tag.

community.members

• community.members.list

  Get list of community members.

community.readers

• community.readers.list

  Get recent users for a community.

community.readers.list

• community.readers.list.compare

  Find shared readers across two communities.

community.tags

• community.tags.list

  Get tags for a community.

member.communities.joined

• member.communities.joined.list

  Get communities that a member has joined.

member.contacts

• member.contacts.list

  Get list of members' contacts.

member.find

• member.find.byscreenname

  Find member_id by username.

• member.find.byid

  Get member profile data including tags, sites authored, and most recent communities joined.

• member.find.byservice

  Lookup a member by service and their id.

member.messages

• member.messages.list

  Get messages for a member.

member.messages.public

• member.messages.public.list

  Get public messages for a member.

member.newwith

• member.newwithcontacts

  Get updates from member's New with My Neighborhood feed.

• member.newwithme

  Get updates from member's New with Me feed.

• member.newwithmyworld

  Get updates from member's New with My World feed.

member.tags

• member.tags.list

  Get a list of tags for a member.

members.find

• members.find.bytag

  Return list of member_id by tag.

test

• test.echo

  Test echo with random text message.

topic.find

• topic.find.byname

  Get topic update feed.

Try It Now!

We have the perfect console to help you get started for testing.

Rate Limit

Yahoo! Web Search Web Services are limited to 5,000 queries per IP per day per API. See information on rate limiting and our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.

Acceptable Use

The MyBlogLog web services are limited to non-commercial use only. See information on our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses.