Application Programmer Interface
Developers can use a web services API to get direct access to our blog census. This API is experimental, and free to everyone, provided you use it for non-commercial purposes. If you have any questions about the terms of service, please contact the site maintainer.
Our XML-RPC server can be found at the following URL:
http://www.blogcensus.net/census_server.pl
Methods
- BlogCensus.isBlog( URL )
Returns 1 if the provided URL is a crawled weblog, 0 otherwise
- BlogCensus.getGenerator( URL )
Returns the name of the authoring tool used to generate the blog
- BlogCensus.getLanguage( URL )
Returns a string containing the language the blog is written in
- BlogCensus.getIncomingLinkCount( URL )
Returns an integer count of incoming links from other blogs
- BlogCensus.getOutgoingLinkCount( URL )
Returns an integer count of outgoing links to other blogs
Sample Code
You can download a sample Perl client for the Blog Census API at http://www.blogcensus.net/census_client.pl