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David Bouchare
9,224 PointsBlog Reader - from another blog
Hi everyone, I would like to code a Blog Reader for Android based on Data taken from another blog (a Wordpress one). Problem is that there is no JSON data to parse as each blog has a title and not a unique ID like the Treehouse one (no API it seems). Is there a workaround? Is it still possible to display each blog post on a list? Thanks a lot!
3 Answers
Bert Carremans
3,179 PointsI think you have to transform the data in your WP database with a PHP function
json_encode
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse TeacherDo you have access to the blog? If so, you can install the same plugin we use for ours that outputs the JSON feed, like this: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/converting-blog-post-to-json
Otherwise, you need to see what kinds of feeds are available and change the app to parse those instead. If only XML is available, for example, then instead of parsing the JSON data you could use something like XmlPullParser.
If you want us to take a look at the blog just drop the URL in a reply. :)
David Bouchare
9,224 PointsHi Ben,
No I don't unfortunately but thanks for the tip. I'll see what I can do.
Best,
David