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PyBlogger 1.0 is now available.

This version adds a major piece of new functionality: the Blogger factory, which can output the contents of your blog in several useful formats. Currently, the following formats are supported:

• RSS: for syndication
• Scripting News XML: also for syndication
• minimal HTML: for text browsers (including Lynx and mobile devices)
• Javascript: for direct inclusion into other web pages

Each format has a corresponding function in bloggerfactory.py, e.g. getBlogAsRSS, getBlogAsScriptingNews. All functions have an API identical to this one:

  def getBlogAsRSS(blogID, username, password, maxposts=15):

which should be fairly self-explanatory. There is also a generic function that takes the format as a string:

  def getBlogAs(format, blogID, username, password, maxposts=20):

where format in (’RSS’, ’scriptingNews’, ‘Minimal’, ‘Javascript’).

The Blogger factory requires several functions which are not yet implemented via XML-RPC; these are implemented in a hackish sort of way in bloggerext.py. These functions are Blogger.com-specific, so the Blogger factory is Blogger.com-specific. The specific functions required are getBlogInfo (to get blog title, description, and URL) and getUserInfo (to get user’s real name). It is my hope that these functions will some day be available via XML-RPC, so that I can update the Blogger factory to use the “official” versions and it can be compatible with all Blogger-compatible servers. (Manila users aren’t really missing anything, since they’ve had all this for years. ;)

Thanks to Meerkat for the idea. Suggestions for additional formats are welcome. The code is Python-licensed, so use it however you want. Go nuts. This is the fun part, after the foundation is laid and we can start building castles.

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