#!/usr/bin/python
##############################################################################
## Sample Python script for posting to a MovableType 4.0 blog. This should
## work for other blogging servers that support the metaWeblog API.
##
## By Andy Reitz <ajr9@po.cwru.edu>, January 22nd, 2008.
## URL: http://redefine.dyndns.org/~andyr/blog/archives/2008/01/posting-to-mova.html
##############################################################################

import sys
import re
import xmlrpclib

##
## Edit these variables to suit your particular blog details.
##

# This is the URL on your blog where you can make XML-RPC calls.
xmlrpcURL = "http://foo.bar.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-xmlrpc.cgi"

# This is the ID number of your blog.
blogID = 1

# The username you use to login to your blog.
username = "joeuser"

# The password that you use to login to your blog.
password = "joepassword"
##
## No more editing should be necessary below this line (but tinkering is
## welcome!)
##

class MTBlog:
  s = ""
  blogID = ""
  username = ""
  password = ""
  def __init__(self, xmlrpcURL, bid, u, p):
    self.s = xmlrpclib.Server(xmlrpcURL)
    self.blogID = bid
    self.username = u
    self.password = p

  # This method prints the title of N recent posts on your blog, where N is
  # a parameter that you supply.
  def getRecent(self, numPostsToGet):
    # Last param is # of posts to get. This returns a list of dictionaries.
    recentPosts = self.s.metaWeblog.getRecentPosts (self.blogID, self.username, self.password, numPostsToGet)

    #
    # On MovableType 4.0, the dictionary returned by getRecentPosts contains
    # the following keys:
    #
    # 'mt_keywords'
    # 'permaLink'
    # 'mt_convert_breaks'
    # 'mt_allow_pings'
    # 'title'
    # 'userid'
    # 'mt_tags'
    # 'mt_basename'
    # 'link'
    # 'mt_text_more'
    # 'mt_allow_comments'
    # 'dateCreated'
    # 'postid'
    # 'mt_excerpt'
    # 'description'
    #
    # I am only printing the title, as a proof of concept.
    #
    print "==================="
    c = 0
    for x in recentPosts:
      print "Item #%d: %s" % (c, x['title'])
      c = c + 1
      print "==================="

  # This method makes a new blog post on your blog. It takes as a parameter
  # a dictionary, which at a minimum should contain keys for 'title' and
  # 'description'. You can add additional keys (and values) as you see fit.
  def postToBlog(self, newPost):
    # This is some additional metadata that I saw MarsEdit passing to my
    # MovableType install. YMMV.
    newPost['mt_allow_comments'] = 1
    newPost['mt_keywords'] = ''
    newPost['mt_convert_breaks'] = 1

    # The number at the end is boolean - true (1) means that the new post
    # should be published. False (0) means that the post should be
    # submitted, but in an unpublished state.
    #
    # On MovableType 4.0, this call returns the post ID.
    np = self.s.metaWeblog.newPost (self.blogID, self.username, self.password, newPost, 1)

    # This is the ID # of the new post.
    return np

  def editBlogPost(self, postID, editedPost):

    ep = self.s.metaWeblog.editPost (postID, self.username, self.password, editedPost, 1)
    return ep


###
## Main Program starts here.
###

# Create a new instance of a MTBlog object.
bh = MTBlog (xmlrpcURL, blogID, username, password)

# Create a new blog post dictionary. You should change the data here, to
# whatever you want to appear in your blog post.
post = {}
post['title'] = "Posting from Python #1"
post['description'] = "This is the body of the message. The message is the body, the body is the message!\nThis is a second linel\n"

# Post this thing to the specified blog.
mtPostID = bh.postToBlog (post)
print "Post ID: %s" % mtPostID

# For some reason, MarsEdit immediately edits the post after the initial
# posting. So, this is an example of how post editing works. In my testing,
# I found that if I just wanted to change the title, I also had to submit
# the description field again - otherwise the body of my blog post would get
# wiped out!
post['title'] = "Posting from Python #%s" % mtPostID
editedPostResult = bh.editBlogPost (mtPostID, post)
print "Edited Post Result: %s" % editedPostResult