diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index c382ecd6eb0..6a4c7d1a40d 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "googleapis",
-  "version": "28.1.0",
+  "version": "29.0.0",
   "lockfileVersion": 1,
   "requires": true,
   "dependencies": {
diff --git a/samples/blogger/insert.js b/samples/blogger/insert.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8f095afc59a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/blogger/insert.js
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+// Copyright 2018, Google, LLC.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+'use strict';
+
+const {google} = require('googleapis');
+const sampleClient = require('../sampleclient');
+
+const blogger = google.blogger({
+  version: 'v3',
+  auth: sampleClient.oAuth2Client
+});
+
+async function runSample () {
+  const res = await blogger.posts.insert({
+    blogId: '4340475495955554224',
+    resource: {
+      title: 'Hello from the googleapis npm module!',
+      content: 'Visit https://github.com/google/google-api-nodejs-client to learn more!'
+    }
+  });
+  console.log(res.data);
+  return res.data;
+}
+
+if (module === require.main) {
+  const scopes = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/blogger'];
+  sampleClient.authenticate(scopes)
+    .then(runSample)
+    .catch(console.error);
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  runSample,
+  client: sampleClient.oAuth2Client
+};
diff --git a/samples/config.json b/samples/config.json
deleted file mode 100644
index d34db27cb50..00000000000
--- a/samples/config.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
-  "customsearch_engine_id": "YOUR_CUSTOMSEARCH_ENGINE_ID"
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/samples/test.samples.blog.ts b/test/samples/test.samples.blog.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..088625bf19b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/samples/test.samples.blog.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+// Copyright 2018, Google, LLC.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+import * as assert from 'assert';
+import * as nock from 'nock';
+import {Utils} from '../utils';
+
+nock.disableNetConnect();
+
+// tslint:disable: no-any
+const samples: any = {
+  post: require('../../../samples/blogger/insert'),
+};
+
+for (const p in samples) {
+  if (samples[p]) {
+    samples[p].client.credentials = {access_token: 'not-a-token'};
+  }
+}
+
+describe('blogger samples', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    nock.cleanAll();
+  });
+
+  it('should insert a blog post', async () => {
+    const scope = nock(Utils.baseUrl)
+                      .post(`/blogger/v3/blogs/4340475495955554224/posts`)
+                      .reply(200, {});
+    const data = await samples.post.runSample();
+    assert(data);
+    scope.done();
+  });
+});