I can create a blog entry using Live Writer and post it successfully. I can also connect to my blog and download the current theme and I can download pages from the blog. What I can’t do is download existing posts.

When I try to download posts, I get the following error:
The response to the metaWeblog.getRecentPosts method received from the blog server was invalid:

Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server

When I look at the Live Writer log file I can see the text of my posts are in the log but there is also an error message. I’ve tried disabling plugins (generally I only use one – “Easy iFrame Loader”) and changing to different themes.

any help is appreciated. here’s my log file (truncated) with the error message and a test post that was retrieved:

WindowsLiveWriter,1.2900,None,00106,17-May-2014 08:12:08.243,”Exception parsing XML-RPC response:

WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.XmlRpcClientInvalidResponseException: Invalid response document returned from XmlRpc server —> System.Xml.XmlException: ”, hexadecimal value 0x01, is an invalid character. Line 1050, position 275.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Int32 pos, String res, String[] args)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowInvalidChar(Int32 pos, Char invChar)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseText(Int32& startPos, Int32& endPos, Int32& outOrChars)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseText()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.LoadXml(String xml)
at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.XmlRpcMethodResponse..ctor(String responseText)
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.XmlRpcMethodResponse..ctor(String responseText)
at WindowsLive.Writer.CoreServices.XmlRpcClient.CallMethod(String methodName, XmlRpcValue[] parameters)

<?xml version=””1.0″” encoding=””UTF-8″”?>
<methodResponse>
<params>
<param>
<value>
<array><data>
<value><struct>
<member><name>dateCreated</name><value><dateTime.iso8601>20140517T12:07:27</dateTime.iso8601></value></member>
<member><name>userid</name><value><string>1</string></value></member>
<member><name>postid</name><value><string>1170</string></value></member>
<member><name>description</name><value><string><p>another test</p></string></value></member>
<member><name>title</name><value><string>test post 2</string></value></member>
<member><name>link</name><value><string>https://blog.sunpond.com/?p=1170</string></value></member>
<member><name>permaLink</name><value><string>https://blog.sunpond.com/?p=1170</string></value></member>
<member><name>categories</name><value><array><data>
<value><string>Uncategorized</string></value>
</data></array></value></member>
<member><name>mt_excerpt</name><value><string></string></value></member>
<member><name>mt_text_more</name><value><string></string></value></member>
<member><name>wp_more_text</name><value><string></string></value></member>
<member><name>mt_allow_comments</name><value><int>1</int></value></member>
<member><name>mt_allow_pings</name><value><int>1</int></value></member>
<member><name>mt_keywords</name><value><string></string></value></member>
<member><name>wp_slug</name><value><string>test-post-2</string></value></member>
<member><name>wp_password</name><value><string></string></value></member>
<member><name>wp_author_id</name><value><string>1</string></value></member>
<member><name>wp_author_display_name</name><value><string>Bruce</string></value></member>
<member><name>date_created_gmt</name><value><dateTime.iso8601>20140517T12:07:27</dateTime.iso8601></value></member>
<member><name>post_status</name><value><string>publish</string></value></member>
<member><name>custom_fields</name><value><array><data>
</data></array></value></member>
<member><name>wp_post_format</name><value><string>standard</string></value></member>
<member><name>date_modified</name><value><dateTime.iso8601>20140517T12:07:27</dateTime.iso8601></value></member>
<member><name>date_modified_gmt</name><value><dateTime.iso8601>20140517T12:07:27</dateTime.iso8601></value></member>
<member><name>sticky</name><value><boolean>0</boolean></value></member>
<member><name>wp_post_thumbnail</name><value><string></string></value></member>
</struct></value>

I dont understand the problem, am i missing anything or it is by design that XMLRPC will return only 20 recent post.

I am using out of box feature of wordpress RPC-XML.
I have checked the documentation or web regarding getting post under category or searching post via RPC-XML But no success.

I am using metaWeblog.getRecentPosts but it get most recent post, but not withing specified category. Is there a way to get post under specified category with metaWeblog.getRecentPosts or other methods. Is there a plugin which can help with enabling search capabilities with RPC-XML call.

Regards
Raj

since the update to version 2.3.2 the subscriber-role can’t get posts (getRecentPosts) through xmlrpc anymore. it works flawlessly when using any admin account, so this is (wordpress-)security related.
i’am using xmlrpc to read out the blog and display the entries in a flash application – so using the admin account is out of the question for this.
is this a bug or is this intended and stays that way in future releases? and is there a fast fix i can apply until the next release of wordpress?

thanks in advance!