I have a simple script to login against the API and get my OPML and starred stories as a backup. I’d like to extend it to export/backup my shared stories via the URL, but how do I determine my user_id ? I don’t see it coming back in the /api/login response, and I don’t see another way to get it.
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You shouldn’t need your user id. Just pass back the cookie from /api/login.
Ohh, I suppose you’re looking for your blurblog stories. Just checked and there are no endpoints which give you your user id back. If you just want it once, go to the web and open your blurblog. The URL should include your user id. If you want to be able to automate this process, let me know and I’ll include it in some endpoint, probably login.
Ok, I added a ‘user_id’ parameter to every single response. I noticed it might be nice, and it doubles as a check on authentication.
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Samuel, thanks so much for this. I was able to extend my backup script to parse the user_id out and use it to dump my shared stories.
Cheers, thanks a lot!