I spent some time recently trying to figure out, using Google’s gdata API, how to retrieve a post from a Blogger blog if I know corresponding post id. As far as I can tell there is no obvious way of doing this, at least not using the gdata.blogger.client api, but after much nashing of teeth I came up with the following solution.

Given client, a gdata.blogger.client instance, and blog, a gdata.blogger.data.Blog instance, the following code will return a gdata.blogger.data.BlogPost instance: