This is a very disappointing development, but it sort of comes with the territory for an app such as MarsEdit that supports a variety of services, none of which is under my control.
I have not yet decided whether I can leave some form of support in the app to accommodate folks who are satisfied to continue blogging without the ability to add images to their posts.
Marsedit vs ulysses update#
After March 15, 2019, I will update MarsEdit to remove Blogger as a supported system. Without support for uploading media, I can no longer endorse Blogger as a suitable blogging service for MarsEdit users. Their API has never directly supported image uploads, but I had been able to accommodate solutions using Picasa’s API. Since I first added support for Blogger almost 12 years ago, I have needed to jump through hoops to support image uploads for the service. Uploading images to Blogger has never been straightforward.
Furthermore, images uploaded separately to Google Photos albums cannot be embedded into other web content such as a blog post.
Unfortunately, I’ve since learned that Google does not provide the same interface to Blogger albums via Google Photos that they did via the Picasa API. I had anticipated being able to switch to the Google Photos API, and put a substantial amount of working into transitioning to that service. I have bad news for MarsEdit users who publish to Blogger: Google is shutting down the Picasa Web Albums API, and MarsEdit will no longer be able to upload images to Blogger/Blogspot blogs.
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