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Ganesh Sumb
Courses Plus Student 243 PointsProblem with the link...
I am learning to build a blog reader app. But the link used in that app is "http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/api/get_recent_summary/?count=20". So what is this link and how can i make my blog link like that.
3 Answers
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherCheck out this previous Forum post. It talks about how to try to configure your own blog (if it's a WordPress blog) to work like this.
Ganesh Sumb
Courses Plus Student 243 PointsNo, my Blog is hosted by Weebly.
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherOkay, so you need to find out what kind of feeds are enabled by Weebly, though a quick search looks like it might only be RSS, not JSON. An RSS feed is really just a specialized form of XML. XML can be downloaded, parsed, and processed just like a JSON feed, but you have to use different classes and methods to parse through it to get the data.
So step 1: See what kind of feed is available.
Step 2: If JSON, proceed with code similar to the Blog Reader project. If RSS/XML, you'll need to look for a different tutorial on how to parse that as we don't currently offer that. :-(
Ganesh Sumb
Courses Plus Student 243 PointsYes Weebly uses RSS feeds. Where Can i Find that Code?
Ganesh Sumb
Courses Plus Student 243 PointsGanesh Sumb
Courses Plus Student 243 PointsNo, my Blog is hosted by Weebly.