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Get a feed that contains a person's default blog
Get a feed that contains the default blog of a specific user. You can retrieve all of the posts in the blog, or search for particular posts.
Atom API request details
Resource Description /roller-ui/feed/{emailaddress} This feed returns a redirect to the user's default 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. {emailaddress} represents the e-mail address of the person whose blog you want to search. Format the HTTP request using the proper URL encoding. For example, the encoded form of the @ symbol is %40 as in:
adam_eventide%40garden.comIf Lotus Connections is configured to prevent e-mail addresses from being displayed, use the {userid} resource instead.
/roller-ui/feed/{userid} This feed returns a redirect to the user's default 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. {userid} represents the user ID of the person whose blog you want to search.
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 entries. 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 entries with the specified tags. Separate multiple tags with a plus sign (+).
Output
An Atom feed document containing the blog entries.
Example
To get a feed containing the default blog of the user with the e-mail address amy_jones@us.acme.com, send the following HTTP request:> GET /blogs/roller-ui/feed/amy_jones%40us.acme.com HTTP/1.1 > Host: blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9082 > Accept: */*The HTTP response would look as follows:
< HTTP/1.1 302 Found < Location: http://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9082/blogs/amy11Blog/feed/entries/ atom ... * Issue another request to this URL: 'http://blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9082/ blogs/amy11Blog/feed/entries/atom' * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host blogs.enterprise.acme.com * Connected to blogs.enterprise.acme.com (9.32.150.22) port 9082 (#0) > GET /blogs/amy11Blog/feed/entries/atom HTTP/1.1 > Host: blogs.enterprise.acme.com:9082 > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK ...The 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 8.5 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 8.5 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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