I’m hosting my own wordpress site on my own server. I want to use this python script on that server, but I can’t figure out how to get the URL correct. I’ve tried localhost/xmlrpc.php, but I just get a 301 Moved Permanently error. I’ve also tried my actual dns/IP address, but it just times out. I also also tried giving it the absolute path to the xmlrpc.php file, but no such luck.

I’m running apache2 on an ubuntu server. I know everything is set up fine because I can use this script with the same config and post from a different network (using my dns/IP). Unfortunately, I need to be able to use this script on the same machine that the wordpress site is being hosted on. What’s the best way to go about doing this?

Thanks!
Vash

Parsing post entry from standard input…
Saving new post entry…
Error:

Of course, how can i know what isn’t well formed when it doesn’t tell me what it is? Frustrated.

mtsend.py follows the usual unix philosophy of one program doing one job.

I have to manually offset for GMT. Fine. It’s not relaly 6:26PM, it’s 11:26PM. I know I’m GMT-5. That part is easy.

Now it successfully posts to wordpress — scheduled and everything! Except when the time comes, it doesn’t post. ARGH.

I literally will need to find another complete solution for blogging if that doesn’t work. It sucks, because I have been using mtsend for over a year! ):

I’m trying mtsend.py on a drupal site, and I, too, can’t get past the “Error:url’ message. What is the reason? Did anybody find it out?

Another question: can mtsend.py today set or read fields in posts which have custom fields?

TIA,
Marco

It inspired me to write a ruby blogger for Blogger (blogspot). I use mtsend.py for wordpress blogs.

I just wrote a little script so it decides on the alias based on the folder I am in (from vim, it’s a problem changing aliases)

if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
echo "I got no filename"
exit 1
fi
alias=`basename $PWD`
echo "Using alias: $alias"
mtsend.py -N -a $alias < $*

–
rahul

I am interested in using this tool to post to LiveJournal as well. I am having very little success! Does anyone have any information on this?

I have tried both directly with LJ’s XMLRCP interace (no results), and indirectly using Delicious Glue, a script for forwarding del.icio.us’s daily blogposts to LJ via XMLRCP request. When I use delicious glue, I can get the body through, but not the subject and tags.

Any clue what I’m doing wrong?

Recently, I’ve started getting this error with my WP 2.3.3 blog:

blogclient -v -L 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/jm/bin/blogclient”, line 906, in
main(sys.argv[1:])
File “/home/jm/bin/blogclient”, line 897, in main
mtsend.execute()
File “/home/jm/bin/blogclient”, line 231, in execute
handler()
File “/home/jm/bin/blogclient”, line 314, in execute_l
self.get_password(), num)
File “/usr/local/putplace/Python-2.5.1/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py”, line 1147, in __call__
return self.__send(self.__name, args)
File “/usr/local/putplace/Python-2.5.1/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py”, line 1437, in __request
verbose=self.__verbose
File “/usr/local/putplace/Python-2.5.1/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py”, line 1201, in request
return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
File “/usr/local/putplace/Python-2.5.1/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py”, line 1335, in _parse_response
p.feed(response)
File “/usr/local/putplace/Python-2.5.1/lib/python2.5/xmlrpclib.py”, line 547, in feed
self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: XML or text declaration not at start of entity: line 2, column 0

it appears the server is sending back an additional newline at the start of the XML-RPC response, I’m not sure why, or if this is valid.

I hacked around it by adding the re.sub() line below to xmlrpclib.py:

def _parse_response(self, file, sock):
# read response from input file/socket, and parse it

p, u = self.getparser()

while 1:
if sock:
response = sock.recv(1024)
else:
response = file.read(1024)
if not response:
break
if self.verbose:
print “body:”, repr(response)
response = re.sub(r’(?s)^\n’, ”, response) # jm fix
p.feed(response)

file.close()
p.close()

return u.close()