blo.gs RSS ping: Code

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blo.gs RSS ping for Movable Type by Mark Paschal <markpasc@markpasc.org>

blo.gsRssPing.txt

Movable Type can ping blo.gs by itself, but because it has no concept of an RSS feed--just different index templates--your blo.gs entry looks like this:

10:53am markpasc.org (related) ⊗

with no link to your RSS feed. This CGI script uses Python's standard xmlrpclib module to forward weblogUpdates.ping calls to blo.gs as weblogUpdates.extendedPings with RSS data. It makes your entry look like this:

10:53am markpasc.org (rss, related) ⊗

Install

Get the CGI script.
Change the weblogUrl and rssUrl variables near its top to the proper URLs for your weblog.
Install the CGI script somewhere it will run.
On the Preferences page of your Movable Type weblog's configuration, disable blo.gs pinging and add the URL for this script in the other locations box.
Check blo.gs for the RSS link next time you post.

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Version history

1.0, 12 December 2002: Cleaned up. Header comment. First public release.

0.9, 10 December 2002: Wrote and debugged of an evening.