etherpost.sh

Fetches an etherpad and writes it to an existing to wordpress post using the XML-RPC-API.

So we can have multiple users editing an wordpress-post simultaniously and update it periodically.

featuring

UNIX shell
curl
python and it's xmlrpclib

General

This is about to edit a post, not to create one. Create a posting and set its categories & tags in adavance and grab the post id.

Currently, the title is defined in etherpost.sh and the script needs to be restarted in order to change it.

Get started

Change variables in etherpost.sh to your needs:

XML-RPC-API-URL
username / password
post id
post title
etherpad URL
interval (default=60s)
blog id (only relevant for wpmu installations)

Run etherpost.sh, preferable in a screen.

What can be done

Version for cronjob: Remove the while loop and the sleep-command in order to add script as a cronjob. Please commit a solution for logging when doing so :)

Parametrization of pyhton call: Currently while calling the python script the arguments need to be in correct order. One could add support for key/value-parameters, like --username=foo .

Or get rid of shell or python part: Cause my phyton skills are more limited than my shell skills, the python script handles the API-call but nothing else.

About and license

etherpost.sh was created to enable a multiuser-live-blogging-mode for netzpolitik.org' coverage on the NSA investigation committee ("NSA-Untersuchungssausschuss") of the german parliament whose protocols will only be published with a huge delay -- if they will be published at all.

It is tinkered by wetterfrosch <wetter_ätt_netzpolitik_dott_org>, many thanks to Jan Sipke showing how to use python's xmlrpclib for interacting with wordpress: http://jansipke.nl/using-python-to-add-new-posts-in-wordpress/

etherpost.sh is licensed under WTFPL:

        DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                Version 2, December 2004

Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar 14 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed.

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