Scott Yang's Playground

I have not updated mtsend.py for more than a year, as it has been working quite comfortably for me. I have made some slight modifications during this year just to scratch some of my itches. Also thanks to Ilkka Poutanen for providing bug fixes on the printTable() routine. Thus I am declaring mtsend.py an 1.0 [...]

I have no idea why no one has requested, but I have added the feature in release 0.6 of mtsend.py anyway – HTTP proxy server support. I am now sitting on a host behind a squid server, so proxy server support becomes essential to me. With 0.6, mtsend.py should automatically pick up your proxy server [...]

After 6+ months of inactive, I’ve finally made some changes to my mtsend.py script that allows someone to post/edit blog entries on MovableType in the luxury of Un*x/DOS command line. In version 0.5, I have removed all the supports for MovableType 2.5 to keep the code clean, so please use version 0.4 if you are [...]

I’ve finally upgraded myself to MovableType 2.6.3 this morning, and not surprisingly, my command-line MT client script mtsend.py does not work properly anymore. D’oh. It is mainly due to some changes in the XML-RPC API, i.e. boolean is now integer for a particular field, etc. Fixing up is trivial, but at the same time I [...]

I’ve spent a bit of time coding and testing during the Christmas break, and here it is – mtsend.py, a command line tool for Movable Type (SY: Works fine in WordPress as well) written in Python. It uses XML-RPC exported by Movable Type to retrieve posts, edit posts, make new post entry, fix up categories [...]