Monday, January 13, 2003
XML-RPC: Bloggerbot & MoveableType
Michael Gunn pointed me in the direction of this nifty blogging tool: hollowcube.com - talk: update your blog via AIM using BloggerBot.
BloggerBot
"This is a AIM bot that acts as a publishing gateway to to the weblog publishing service blogger. It communicates with the blogger servers via XML-RPC. It allows users to post to multiple weblogs quickly and effortlessly."
http://www.fibiger.org/bloggerbot
XML-RPC
"Simple cross-platform distributed computing, based on the standards of the Internet. It's a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet."
http://www.xml-rpc.com/
Thought I might point out that MoveableType can make use of any "blogger" interface 'cos its cool and has a bunch of programming interfaces for just such a thing :) Movable Type features a full implementation of the Blogger XML-RPC API (where applicable).
Sadly "bloggerbot" (or his friend "blogbot") doesn't appear to be online these days. The source is available (just a perl script, sql create table statement and an XML config file) but I haven't the patience to see if it still works. If anyone has it running I'd love to hear from you - might get me enthused enough to get it going myself.
If you have a few spare moments, XML-RPC is an interesting read. Yet another one of those technologies taking us closer to a smarter web. Now if only I could convince Mr Gunn to turn on TrackBack for his blog and he'd know about this post automatically!
Posted by modius at 12:08 AM | Permalink
Trackback: http://blog.daemon.com.au/cgi-bin/dmblog/mt-tb.cgi/66
Wouldn't you know.. Bloggerbot logged on today... transcript follows >>
modius666: hello
bloggerbot: Register, then type into this IM window to post.
Here are some other commands:
/register BLOGGERNAME PASSWORD registers your screenname with a particular blogger login
/list will give you a listing of all blogs you can publish to
/default BLOGIDNUM will set the blog that you are currently publishing to
/update will refresh the list of blogs you are a member of
/lastfive will return post id numbers and the first few words of your last five posts
/delete POSTIDNUM will delete the post that you specify
/password OLDPASS NEWPASS will change your bloggerbot profile to use your new blogger.com password
(http://www.fibiger.org/bloggerbot/ for news and help)
Posted by: Geoff Bowers on January 14, 2003 06:30 PM
Hey Geoff! Well, it took me 10 days, but i finally got over to this post. Of course, like you say, i'd be better off with trackback installed.
However, it requires mySQL and uh, I'm having a little trouble trying to figure out how to run it. The thing is, I could run it just fine with phpMyAdmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/), but my friend who is hosting my website doesn't want PHP installed because it conflicts with something else (i guess...).
Anyway, I'm considering switching hosting companies, but don't want to pay much $$. If you have any ideas on this, i'd surely listen! :)
I don't believe I've linked to your blog... I'll have to do that.
Posted by: michael e. gunn on January 24, 2003 08:09 PM
Nope.. I use TrackBack and I won't let MySQL near my box :)
Posted by: Geoff Bowers on January 24, 2003 09:24 PM
hey geoff... hollowcube.com is switching servers, and I have upgraded to MT 2.51, and am turning ON trackback. the nameservers should come into effect within 48 hours (or so network solutions tells me...).
oh yea baby. oh yea. ;)
Posted by: michael e. gunn on February 9, 2003 10:17 PM
Trackback is on! :)
http://www.hollowcube.com/scgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&entry_id=162
-michael
Posted by: michael e. gunn on February 22, 2003 11:42 AM
Wouldn't you know.. Bloggerbot logged on today... transcript follows >>
modius666: hello
bloggerbot: Register, then type into this IM window to post.
Here are some other commands:
/register BLOGGERNAME PASSWORD registers your screenname with a particular blogger login
/list will give you a listing of all blogs you can publish to
/default BLOGIDNUM will set the blog that you are currently publishing to
/update will refresh the list of blogs you are a member of
/lastfive will return post id numbers and the first few words of your last five posts
/delete POSTIDNUM will delete the post that you specify
/password OLDPASS NEWPASS will change your bloggerbot profile to use your new blogger.com password
(http://www.fibiger.org/bloggerbot/ for news and help)
Posted by: Geoff Bowers on January 14, 2003 06:30 PM
Hey Geoff! Well, it took me 10 days, but i finally got over to this post. Of course, like you say, i'd be better off with trackback installed.
However, it requires mySQL and uh, I'm having a little trouble trying to figure out how to run it. The thing is, I could run it just fine with phpMyAdmin (http://www.phpmyadmin.net/documentation/), but my friend who is hosting my website doesn't want PHP installed because it conflicts with something else (i guess...).
Anyway, I'm considering switching hosting companies, but don't want to pay much $$. If you have any ideas on this, i'd surely listen! :)
I don't believe I've linked to your blog... I'll have to do that.
Posted by: michael e. gunn on January 24, 2003 08:09 PM
Nope.. I use TrackBack and I won't let MySQL near my box :)
Posted by: Geoff Bowers on January 24, 2003 09:24 PM
hey geoff... hollowcube.com is switching servers, and I have upgraded to MT 2.51, and am turning ON trackback. the nameservers should come into effect within 48 hours (or so network solutions tells me...).
oh yea baby. oh yea. ;)
Posted by: michael e. gunn on February 9, 2003 10:17 PM
Trackback is on! :)
http://www.hollowcube.com/scgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi?__mode=view&entry_id=162
-michael
Posted by: michael e. gunn on February 22, 2003 11:42 AM