Coding Day

Bloglines is still the only reader that provides an “official API” to make use of their services. I was working on a syndication application and decided to share the .NET Bloglines library that I wrote to use their web services.

Requirements

• .NET 3.5 Framework

Quick Reference

• public Bloglines(string username, string password)
      Member of CodingDay.Bloglines

Default constructor, password is optional for count function.

• public int Count()
      Member of CodingDay.Bloglines

Returns number of unread items from your subscriptions

• public System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable <Subscription> GetSubscriptionList()
      Member of CodingDay.Bloglines

Gets the Subscription list from your account

• public System.Collections.Generic.IEnumerable<Channel> GetChannels(string SubId, bool markasRead)
      Member of CodingDay.Bloglines

Get the rss feeds for a subscription ID returned from the subscription list function. MarkasRead parameter is the synchronization parameter to mark the changes on bloglines servers.

Download

nBloglines Source Code

Downloads: 142 File Name: Bloglines.cs

nBloglines DLL

Downloads: 70 File Name: nBloglines.dll

Usage

• Create CodingDay.Bloglines object

var blines = new CodingDay.Bloglines("***@****.***", "******");

• Count unread items for the user

 Console.WriteLine("{0}", blines.Count());

• Get list of subscriptions

 var subscriptions =  blines.GetSubscriptionList();
foreach (var item in subscriptions)
{
  Console.WriteLine("id:{0}, url:{1}, parent:{2}", item.Id, item.Url, item.ParentId);
}

• Get items for a subscription feed or folder using the id returned from subscription function

// use a number from the subscriptions id
var channels = blines.GetChannels("64363260", false); 
foreach (var item in channels)
{
  Console.WriteLine("title:{0}, description:{1}", item.Title, item.Description);
  foreach (var i in item.Items)
  {
     Console.WriteLine("{0}", i.Description);
  }
}

For more details, check out http://www.bloglines.com/services/api/