Social · head-to-head
Blogger vs Lanyard
Blogger API v3 is Google's REST/JSON interface for its blogging platform, letting apps retrieve and manage blogs, posts, comments, and pages. Public data can be read with a plain API key, but writing content or touching private data requires a full OAuth 2.0 authorization flow. The docs still list the deprecated v1.0 and v2.0 protocol guides alongside the current v3.0 reference, reflecting a mature, low-churn API that hasn't needed a v4.
Lanyard exposes a Discord user's live presence — online status, current activities (games, Spotify listening data), and any custom key-value data set via their Discord bio — over a free public REST endpoint or a subscribable WebSocket feed, with no authentication required. The catch is that both the requester and the target user must share a Discord server with Lanyard's bot, since Discord's gateway only surfaces presence data for mutual-guild members.
| Blogger | Lanyard | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | yes | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Lanyard needs no API key, while Blogger requires OAuth — pick Lanyard to start without signup.