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Get a feed of recent posts for a blog
Get a feed that lists all of the posts in a specific blog from most recent to oldest.
This request returns a feed of all the blog posts as opposed to returning the Atom entry of a single blog post. To return an Atom entry of a single blog post, see Retrieving a blog post. The following resources are available from the recent posts feed:
- A current copy of this Atom Feed Document (self link).
- An HTML representation of this feed (alternate link).
- Blog post comments feed (replies link in post entries).
- Blog post comments collection (comments collection in post entries).
- A feed of the people who have recommended a Blog post.
- Recommend a blog post.
- Report inappropriate content to administrator link (reports link in post entries).
Atom API request details
Resource Description {handle}/feed/entries/atom A feed containing the recently added posts of a particular blog. {handle} represents the blog handle. A handle is specified when a blog is first created and is used in the construction of Web addresses used to query the entries in a blog.
You can use one or more of the input parameters to limit the number of posts returned in the feed. Separate multiple parameters with an ampersand (&).
Input parameters
Parameter Description page Page number. Specifies the page to be returned. The first page is page 0. ps Page size. Specifies the number of entries to return per page. search Well-formed full text search query. Performs a text search of the blog posts. since Includes in the resulting feed all entries published after a specified date. Specify the date using a date-time value that conforms to RFC3339. In addition, an uppercase "T" character must be used to separate date and time, and an uppercase "Z" character must be present in the absence of a numeric time zone offset. For example: 2009-01-04T20:32:31.171Z. sortBy Species what value to use as the basis for organizing the entries returned in the feed. The options are:
- commented
- Organize the entries by the number of comments or replies it has received.
- modified
- Organize the entries by modification date.
- recommended
- Organize the entries by number of recommendations.
- title
- Organize the entries by title. The title used is the text that is displayed in the <title> element of each entry in the feed.
- visited
- Organize the entries by the number of times an entry has been visited.
Use with the sortOrder parameter to specify the order in which to display the results..
sortOrder Specifies the order in which to list the feed entries. The options are:
- asc
- Displays the entries in ascending order.
- desc
- Displays the entries in descending order.
tags Returns blog posts with the specified tags. Separate multiple tags with a plus sign (+).
Output
An Atom feed document containing the blog posts.
Example
To search the posts in a blog that has the handle amy11Blog, send the following HTTP request:> GET /blogs/amy11Blog/feed/entries/atom HTTP/1.1 > Host: blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9082 > Accept: */*The HTTP response would look as follows:
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:52:20 GMT < Cache-Control: public, must-revalidate, max-age=600 < Content-Type: application/atom+xml; charset=utf-8 < Content-Language: en-US < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:33:22 GMT < Server: WebSphere Application Server/6.1The following content is returned by the server:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:snx="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xml:lang="en-US"> <id>urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-f08f56e6-dc1a-4946-acf0-45511c9465a1</id> <title type="text">Using Sametime</title> <subtitle type="html" /> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/feed/entries/ atom?lang=en_us" /> <link rel="edit" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/BVThome0730095558/api/ blogs/f08f56e6-dc1a-4946-acf0-45511c9465a1?lang=en_us" type="application/atom+xml" /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest?lang=en_us" /> <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/feed/comments/ atom?lang=en_us" /> <link rel="media" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/feed/media/ atom?lang=en_us" /> <link rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/issues" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/BVThome0730095558/feed/ issuecategories/atom?lang=en_us" /> <link rel="first" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/feed/entries/ atom?lang=en_us" /> <openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults> <app:categories href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/feed/tags/ atom?lang=en_us" /> <updated>2009-07-30T12:33:23-04:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn" version="2.5"> Lotus Connections - Blogs </generator> <entry xml:base="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/entry/ thoughts_on_using_sametime" xml:lang="en-US"> <id>urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entry-26619d6a-8449-4f82-aa1e-ec276af65dc5</id> <title type="text">Thoughts on using Sametime</title> <author> <name>Lou Green</name> <email>lgreen@us.acme.com</email> <snx:userid>5b788f40-7d67-102c-845c-e2ebc3ec5536</snx:userid> </author> <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/entry/ thoughts_on_using_sametime?lang=en_us" /> <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/feed/entry/ atom?entryid=26619d6a-8449-4f82-aa1e-ec276af65dc5&lang=en_us" /> <link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/feed/ entrycomments/thoughts_on_using_sametime/atom?lang=en_us" thr:count="1" /> <link rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/reports" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/BVThome0730095558/ api/reports/26619d6a-8449-4f82-aa1e-ec276af65dc5?lang=en_us" /> <link rel="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/recommendations" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/feed/ entryrecommendations/26619d6a-8449-4f82-aa1e-ec276af65dc5/ atom?lang=en_us" /> <app:collection href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/api/ entrycomments/26619d6a-8449-4f82-aa1e-ec276af65dc5?lang=en_us"> <title type="text">Comment Entries</title> <category scheme="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/collection" term="comments" /> <app:categories fixed="yes" /> <app:accept>application/atom+xml;type=entry</app:accept> </app:collection> <app:collection href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/api/recommend/ entries/26619d6a-8449-4f82-aa1e-ec276af65dc5?lang=en_us"> <title type="text">Recommendations</title> <category scheme="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/collection" term="recommend" /> <app:categories fixed="yes" /> </app:collection> <published>2009-07-30T12:31:36-04:00</published> <updated>2009-07-30T12:31:36-04:00</updated> <category term="st" /> <link rel="related" type="text/html" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/tags/ st?lang=en_us" /> <content type="html"> <![CDATA[ Installed Notes including Sametime and am now seeing the business card in the product user interface.<br>I find it very useful for accessing contact information for people that I exchange e-mail with.<br> ]]> </content> <summary type="html"> <![CDATA[ Installed Notes including Sametime and am now seeing the business card in the product user interface. I find it very useful for accessing contact information for people that I exchange e-mail with. ]]> </summary> <snx:rank scheme="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/recommendations">1</snx:rank> <snx:rank scheme="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/comment">1</snx:rank> <snx:rank scheme="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/sn/hit">4</snx:rank> <source> <id>urn:lsid:ibm.com:blogs:entries-f08f56e6-dc1a-4946-acf0-45511c9465a1</id> <title type="text">Using Sametime</title> <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="self" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest/feed/entries/ atom?lang=en_us" /> <link type="text/html" href="https://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9444/blogs/usest?lang=en_us"/> <updated>2009-07-30T12:33:23-04:00</updated> </source> </entry> </feed>
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