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The Posterous API lets you post to Posterous, add comments, export your sites, and more

We recently announced our Twitter API, which lets you use Posterous as the image hosting service inside your favorite Twitter client. Since then we've been added by over a dozen of the top Twitter clients available!
 
Today we're taking the next step and releasing our full posting and reading API. On the posting side, the API lets you post to any of your sites, including media. You can also add comments to posts.
 
For reading, you can get a feed of public posts from any Posterous site. You can also do an authenticated read, and get to private posts and private sites. This enables anyone write an exporter if you ever decide you need one. We'll never hold your content hostage.

We're also announcing our Posterous Development Google Group. Join this group to share code, get help, suggest ideas, and report bugs in the API.
 
This is just the beginning. We're committed to making the API as rich and powerful as possible, to help you write great web publishing software. If there's anything more you'd like added, please suggest it in the Google Group!
 
http://groups.google.com/group/posterous-dev
http://posterous.com/api

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Comments (18)

Jul 17, 2009
LouCypher said...
Finally
Jul 17, 2009
Anthony Martin said...
@Twittelator, check this out!
Jul 17, 2009
LouCypher said...
No JSON format for response?
Jul 17, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
the next version of the API will support JSON
Jul 17, 2009
ravi said...
This is very welcome. Question: do you also support MetaWebLog or Atom or equivalent?
Jul 17, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
metaweblog support is coming soon. lots of people want to use some of the other blogging tools out there that publish via metaweblog, so it's definitly important to us.
Jul 17, 2009
ravi said...
Sachin, that's great.
Jul 17, 2009
Jan Michael said...
Is there an easy way to post a locatiin from Google Maps on iPhone?

A simple copy and paste of the "share" link of Google Maps won't work.
Thanks,

Jan.

Jul 18, 2009
great, thanks!! ;)
Jul 18, 2009
Joanne said...
I use Posterous so that I don't have to know technical things like this, but what the heck is an API?
Jul 19, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
Posterous api is available... bravo & long life...
Jul 19, 2009
J.F. Ayel said...
For Joanne: API: interface defining the ways by which an application program may request services http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
Aug 07, 2009
Rich Manalang said...
I'm looking at my blog through the readposts api and I'm seeing comments that I don't see on my main posterous site (http://manalang.com):

http://posterous.com/api/readposts?hostname=manalang

Looks like most of those comments are spam. I assume you guys are filtering the spam out on the web, but not in the API. How are you guys performing the filtering (Akismet)? Are you guys going to provide a place to manage these filtered comments?

Aug 07, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
@Rich thanks for reporting that bug. We filter out spam using Akismet. I'll make sure to leave those out of API calls.
Aug 13, 2009
by the way: why there's no way to post images/videos by web? text only. (i know, e-mail way is gr8 but sometimes postikg by web is better choice)
Sep 07, 2009
Richard Burton said...
I am trying to post a video that I recorded with my computer webcam. It is a wmv file and plays fine on my computer. When I post to posterous I get the video but not the sound. What can be the problem here.
Sep 07, 2009
Sachin Agarwal said...
Richard, I'll follow up with your privately. Thanks
Sep 07, 2009
Richard Burton said...
Great, looking forward to it.

Regards

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