[Slashcode-general] (forw) [bloggerDev] Re: Blogger.pm 0.5.1.2 and rss2blogger

[Data V. <dat...@da...>]

Hey everyone,

Please excuse the spam, but I thought that enough people would be
interested in this.  For those of you like myself who have been wanting
to get slashboxes from blogger sites [1], it looks like we may be getting
one step closer to getting a simple, direct implementation in place.

Anyway, here's the good stuff:

[1] http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=3D01/09/01/2032232

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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 04:47:45 -0000
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Subject: [bloggerDev] Re: Blogger.pm 0.5.1.2 and rss2blogger

--- In bloggerDev@y..., Jim Winstead <jimw-yahoo@t...> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 11:45:48PM -0400, Data Vortex wrote:
> > This is related to something that I've been working on myself. =20
Does
> > anyone know of any progress in getting blogger pages to easily=20
export to
> > RSS?

=2E..

> some work by evan. you could easily write a tool that used the=20
blogger
> api to call blogger.getRecentPosts and turned that into an rss file,
> though. the trick is getting people to use it (or to turn on any
> future output-my-blog-as-rss feature on blogger.com).

If there were some sort of public getRecentPosts() method it would be=20
trivial, but since it requires an authentication, it's not much good=20
for anything but your own sites.=20

Adding a PublishAsRss method to Blogger.pm is trivial, but it's late=20
and all I'm up for right now is watching this tv movie about bike=20
couriers. I'll add it in the morning.

Aside from that, it probably wouldn't be too hard to reverse engineer=20
RSS data out of a blogger site with permalinks. Using something like=20
HTML::Parser and/or HTML::LinkExtor and a regex(p) along the lines=20
of /^($siteurl)\/([\w\d\.-]+)#(\d+)$/ you could probably munge all=20
the info you need without too much effort.=20



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