Article.Get

Gets information about an article from the database.

HTTP Operation

HTTP GET

URL

https://www.mblast.com/api/rest/v.01/article.get.aspx

Parameters

See the documentation for creating REST queries.

ParameterData typeDescription
apiapi (required)mBLAST API assigned to developer.
recordIDinteger (required)The recordID assigned to the article.

Sample Request URL: https://www.mblast.com/api/rest/v.01/article.get.aspx?un=demo&pw=demo&recordID=12345

Response Elements

Response are returned in an XML document.

FieldDescription
responseContains the query response.
articleContains the individual article information.
recordIDThe recordID assigned to the article.
titleThe title of the article.
dateThe date when the article was published.
linkThe URL for the article
bylineThe byline for the article (author names).
publicationIDThe publication ID for the article's publisher.
summaryAn abstract or summary for the article.
textThe full text of the article.
imagelinkA URL pointing to a picture for the article.
keywordsKeywords associated with the article, separated by commas.

Example response

The following is an example of the response returned by the Article.Get method.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
  <article>
    <recordID>12345</recordID>
    <title>Avici Downsizes to Survive</title>
    <date>2006-02-17T1:00:00Z</date>
    <link>

      http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=88972 
    </link>
    <byline>Ray Le Maistre</byline>
    <publicationID>12345</publicationID>
    <summary>
      Core IP router vendor Avici Systems Inc. is 
      cutting 45 percent of its 300 full-time and 
      contract staff positions, or 135 jobs. 
    </summary>
    <keywords>avici, ip router</keywords>
  </article>
</response>

Errors

Article.Get returns the standard errors. There are no errors specific to this method.