On Dec 7, 9:57 pm, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to open up a blog quickly using a hosted blog system, eg. > blogger, livejournal etc. > > Some time in the future I want to extract the data (posts and > comments) out of the blog and convert it to my own system (probably > written in django, or using some other system). > > What hosted system will be easiest to extract the data from in the > future (I'm happy trying to write code to talk to database APIs, but > would prefer not trying to automate page scraping). >
I've been meaning to put some stuff up too and shared your concerns. I'm trying out blogger (google). There is a RESTful api for uploading and pulling down articles and also comments (I think). http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/overview.html http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/ I found the docs a bit confusing, but I've tested it using curl. eg for POSTing a new article (something very roughly like this): curl -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$Auth" \ -H "Content-Type: application/atom+xml" \ -d "@example_post.xml" \ https://www.blogger.com/feeds/$blog_id/posts/default You need to authenticate and get an auth token and know your blog id. I'm guessing wordpress has got similar. -- Daniel Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
