I spent some time today looking at the Technorati API and coding part of a personal tracking application. The API server was spotty throughout the day, making testing difficult. I cleaned up some of the wiki documentation, stored my own copies of API responses, and used my own servers to pull the data.
I put together a demo application using JavaScript.
Some things I noticed:
- Cosmos query never returns
rssurl
oratomurl
elements even though the data is stored. Use theweblog
url
as a parameter in a bloginfo query to pull this data. - The
lang
element in bloginfo is undocumented. 31411 for English, 1065 for Japanese, not sure what else. - Technorati picks up a lot of duplicate references. A weblog entry will often be counted twice: one for the home page and once for the individual entry pages.