Is it possible to use the api for blogs on wordpress.com?

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    galensawyer · Member ·

    Hi,
    I’m aware that the wordpress API can be used to make posts to wordpress blogs hosted on your own server/website. However, is it possible to also make posts to blogs hosted on wordpress.com using the api? If so, where can I find the details such as the URLs to which to make the api requests, etc?

    Currently I’m only interested in adding new posts to blogs hosted on wordpress.com and verifying the login info (so any function which will verify the login info without changing anything, e.g a method which returns the number of posts in the blog, would be fine).

    I will be using PHP and preferably use XML-RPC to make the API requests.

    Thanks.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    tbol3 · Member ·

    Seeing as there is an iPhone and Blackberry app that can publish to worpdress.com, and many other web services that let you post a new blog post on wp.com whenever something new happens (i.e. you upload a new video), I would say that yes, there is an API. As to the implementations of it, I’m not as certain. But you might find something here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/

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    andrew · Member ·

    As @tbol3 says, there are indeed many WordPress client apps that handle .com blogs. The tools section of wp.com steers developers toward the Twitter API:
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-com-through-the-twitter-api/

    I’d check with Support to see if the steering toward Twitter is intentional, or if it’s just that they haven’t got round to documenting other APIs as thoroughly at wp.com yet. If you do that, please share the response here.

    All the best with your WordPress app development!

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