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#1 2011-01-18 16:52:16

progo

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Registered: 2009-12-11

Posts: 11

XML-RPC broken or am I missing something here?

Hello everyone.

I want to expand my blogging a bit and make it possible to blog from command line. The XML-RPC will help me there awesomely.

The only thing is, I can’t seem to get it to work. I first went with Python to poke around but when I couldn’t get anything to show, I installed BloGTK to see if it works at all.

It doesn’t work very well. I can get a connection with BloGTK to my site but any of the article listing options don’t work. I can get a list of my categories so that indicates that I’m able to get through. I also can’t post a new article. Blogtk gives the following error:

<type ‘exceptions.Exception’> <Fault -32602: ‘server error. invalid method parameters’>

I’m not very familiar with the XML-RPC way of communication. How should I proceed? I have this terrible feeling that the documentation is outdated.

E: can some of you name a desktop blogger utility that is known to work with current interfaces well? Preferably open source, so I can take a peek :)

E^2: I couldn’t get anything work, but finally when I went lower level, skipped the higher abstractioned blogger libraries, I did manage to get my message through. I don’t know, something must have changed but it’s not in the documents. The third party libraries probably have some hacks in them, I’ll attach a simple Python code for help if someone wants to play around.

import xmlrpclib
srvr = xmlrpclib.Server("http://your-textpattern-installation/rpc/")

username = ""
password = ""

section = ""
to_publish = True

post = {'title': 'title of your article',
        'description': 'content of the post'}

srvr.metaWeblog.newPost(section, username, password, post, to_publish)

This is the bare minimum. The post structure can take a lot of modifiers, this site has some coverage on the subject.

Last edited by progo (2011-01-19 15:32:00)