Footbridge

Footbridge, a lightweight tool to mirror Radio categories to Advogato, LiveJournal, and Blogger API sites

Download Footbridge 1.4 (20 April 2003, zip)

Footbridge is a lightweight tool to mirror Radio posts to community web sites. It will post to Advogato diaries, LiveJournal journals, and Blogger API sites including Movable Type weblogs. Footbridge is published under a BSD license.

You may also be interested in UserLand's Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool. Footbridge uses the same Blogger API code in Radio as the Manila-Blogger Bridge Tool.

If you enjoy Footbridge and wish to help continue its development and the development of nifty software like it, see the "Shareware" file in the Footbridge archive.

Installing Footbridge

1. Unzip Footbridge.root to your Radio Tools directory.

2. Open Radio's Tools page. If Footbridge is disabled, enable it.

3. In the Radio application, select Tools -> Footbridge -> Install callback.

Upgrading Footbridge

To upgrade Footbridge, unzip the Footbridge.root from the Footbridge20030420.zip file over the one in your Radio Tools directory. The next time Footbridge runs, it will make the necessary changes to upgrade your data to the new version.

Configuring Footbridge

You have to tell Footbridge what categories to mirror where and with what account. Go to the Footbridge configuration page or select Tools -> Footbridge -> View in browser in the Radio application. Follow the links at the tops of the "Category" and "Password" columns to add any necessary categories and passwords to Radio, then configure the categories to mirror and select the Save button. (The "Home Page" category is the same as on the weblog post page: all posts except those for which you uncheck the Home Page checkbox will be mirrored to your "Home Page" category.)

If you're posting with the Blogger or LiveJournal protocols to somewhere besides Blogger or LiveJournal—say, a Movable Type site, or uJournal—enter the . For a Movable Type site, the URL is that of your mt-xmlrpc.cgi script. For LiveJournal (such as uJournal), the URL is the site's /interface/flat script (such as http://www.ujournal.org/interface/flat).

If you have trouble with the install, find a bug, or have any other comments or questions, email me at footbridge@markpasc.org with your problem.

Using Blogger API

When using the blogger driver, use "username@blog ID" for your Footbridge username. For example, if your Blogger username were moose and your blog ID were 31097412, you would enter moose@31097412 as your username on the Footbridge configuration page. If you were posting to the first weblog of a Movable Type site, you would enter moose@1 as your username.

As with any Blogger API application, when posting to Blogger proper, you must save your FTP username and password in your Blogger settings for it to work.

Version history

1.4, 20 April 2003: Categories with spaces in the name (including "Home Page") were not properly saved.

1.3, 11 November 2002: Added "URL" option to post to other Blogger API and LiveJournal sites besides Blogger and LiveJournal.

1.2, 13 July 2002: LiveJournal "Don't auto-format" option added; preliminary Blogger API support.

1.1, 30 June 2002: "Home Page" is now a usable category.

0.1, 22 May 2002: Added LiveJournal support. First release.