Comments on: Crossposting With Blog Server Plugins

By: tycho

tycho — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:30:56 +0000

the other issue that this solves, which took me some time to figure out, is that it lets–hopefully–your server deal with all the text processing issues. So my WP install uses PHP Markdown Extra, and it sends it to LJ as XHTML, not as Markdown… That’s worthwhile :)

By: Sam D

Sam D — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:03:33 +0000

and you might plug your other app at the same time as a GREAT way to manage all this crazy scripting goodness ;)

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:25:27 +0000

Sam: Currently you can’t script a post all the way through to published. You can only populate a post editor window so it’s ready for the user to hit “send.” But yeah, it’s probably worth trying to make the whole thing scriptable and that would solve a lot of these types of problems (or at least be great infrastructure for solving it in a script-like way on behalf of the user).

By: Sam D

Sam D — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:23:20 +0000

Is there something that precludes scripting the cross post? It seems to me having something in the script menu (perhaps the Fast Scripts ;) menu would be the way to go, then with a menu shortcut you could post to your ‘meta-blog’ it might be easier to simplify the applescript api for doing cross-posting types of tasks