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How to Bulk Unpublish Hatena Blog Articles (AtomPub API)

When you want to bulk unpublish old articles after migrating your Hatena Blog articles to another site. Important Note: You Cannot Revert to Draft With the Hatena Blog AtomPub API, you cannot revert published articles back to draft. Sending <app:draft>yes</app:draft> via a PUT request results in a 400 Cannot Change into Draft error. Therefore, there are two approaches: Method 1: Replace the Article Body with “This Article Has Moved” You can rewrite the article’s <content> using the AtomPub API’s PUT method. ...

March 1, 2026 · 2 min · Nakamura

[Google Colab] Retrieving Article Lists Using the Hatena Blog AtomPub API

I created a sample program for retrieving article lists using the Hatena Blog AtomPub API. You can try it on the following Google Colab. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15z0Iime9Bbma7HW09__Fq_fRkcWP6nyS?usp=sharing After running the above program, an Excel file like the following will be downloaded. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14myDqZTxocwOT0Mw3ZzKLO81E6r15R-49oUh2dG9Rbo/edit?usp=sharing The “metadata” sheet stores blog information, and the “items” sheet stores the list of articles. Some aspects may be unclear due to the notation in column A of the “metadata” sheet, the heading rows, and the heading rows of the “items” sheet (which are designed for connection with other applications), but I hope this is helpful when using the Hatena Blog AtomPub API. ...

March 22, 2022 · Updated: March 22, 2022 · 1 min · Nakamura