Several people have been asking me recently if Blogger support in Finch would we available soon. Well, today I have good news. I just published a file release to SourceForge with a new version of Finch that has (some) support for the Atom API. The Atom implementation has not been tested with any other service but Blogger. As the Blogger implementation is known to be slightly different from the standard, this means that Finch 1.1 probably does not work with other Atom blog engines. But it does work for Blogger!
Download the installer here
When you want to use Finch with your Blogger blog, follow these directions:
- In your Blogger setup, enable “Publish site feed“ on the Settings|Site feed tab
- Make sure that after publishing, the Atom XML file is indeed available on your web server
- In Finch go to Tools|Options and set the web service URL to the URL of the Atom feed on your site
- In the Credentials tab, enter your Blogger credentials
- Tap OK and try to Sync Down
You can manage only one blog through Finch, even if you have multiple blogs in Blogger.
Request for support: if you have or know of a blogging service that exposes the Atom API and that I can use for free to test, please let me know. I'm pretty sure that the Atom API implementation I have built works well only with Blogger's implementation. And as they don't use categories, I haven't implemented those either. Their implementation of passing credentials doesn't follow the spec at all. I would really help if I could test against multiple implementations.
The Microsoft site still doesn't offer the Dutch version online, but as the hard copy magazine has already been sent out, I suppose they do not mind me putting the English translation online now.