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Posted by John Jones
John Jones
Courses Plus Student 319 Points

How to get the JSON API for the blog that was used

I do not understand how to get the JSON URL for another blogging site and there does not seem to be any help on other forums.

2 Answers

Jaroslav Vankat
Jaroslav Vankat
12,054 Points
Jaroslav Vankat
Jaroslav Vankat
12,054 Points

Hi,

I would say that on the blog there has to be installed some kind of plugin (or script, or something like that) in order to export data in JSON format (like this for Wordpress - https://wordpress.org/plugins/json-api/). So I'd say you have to write your own script or the webmaster has to support that.

Kevin Nguyen
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Kevin Nguyen
Courses Plus Student 64 Points
Kevin Nguyen
Kevin Nguyen
Courses Plus Student 64 Points

Thank you so much for answering that!

Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points
Harry James
Harry James
14,780 Points

Yes, Jaroslav Vankat is right here in that you either require an additional modification or, the blog hosting company may already provide a JSON Format by default.

It's best to check this out with a quick Google search or with a query to your blog hosting company (That's the people who deal with the blog, not the web hosting) and they'll let you know :)