blog from blogid retreival?

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  h0mee · Member · May 13, 2008 at 9:42 pm

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  Hi all,

  I’m currently working on doing a study of text usage patterns in the blogosphere and wanted to use the wordpress namespace as a starting point. For my study, I wanted more or less a random sampling of blogs, regardless of backlinks or popularity. To do this, I noticed that there is a blog id available on the that wordpress uses to do tracking stats on blogs.

  What I was wondering is if there is some method, given a blog id that wordpress.com can resolve to the url of the blog associated with it? Our sample set will not be too large, maybe a couple of thousands blogs, but the ability to “pick a random number” and see the content associated with it will help us a lot.

  Thanks for your help!!!

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  ellaella · Member · May 13, 2008 at 10:07 pm

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  Have you read this?

  Privacy Policy

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  h0mee · Member · May 13, 2008 at 10:21 pm

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  Hi ellaella,

  I did check out the privacy policy, and I’m not asking for any personally identifiable information. The blog id is currently used for anonymous statistics gathering by wordpress, and I wish to do the same although on a much much smaller scale.

  (Likewise, my use would fall under the policy (“Automattic may display this information publicly or provide it to others”), as I cannot discern any more information other than what is already posted on the blog. )

  Again, I’m not looking for any extra data than just the url of the blog, given a blog id. My study will only be looking information about text usage patterns and will not look at or store any personally identifable information or content.

  Thanks!!!

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  jamesewelch · Member · May 13, 2008 at 11:09 pm

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  Which WP stats page gives you the blog id?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 13, 2008 at 11:22 pm

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  You would have to contact Automattic directly for an answer to that. They don’t generally respond to questions in the forum.

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  h0mee · Member · May 14, 2008 at 8:14 am

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  Thanks for your suggestions.

  jamesewelch: if you view source on most wordpress blogs, you will see a piece of javascript snippet that calls a routine in w.js :

  
st_go({'blog':'#######','v':'wpcom','user':'1','post':'0','subd':'testsubdomain'});


  where the ##### is the blog id.

  Thanks again for the replies!

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  mark · Member · May 14, 2008 at 8:58 am

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  h0mee – as raincoaster says you would need to contact us through Support.
  You would also need to include every single detail – literally.