Rob Raux - Observations

Random web blog experiment

In my desire to test the wordpress XML-RPC, which by the way is very poorly documented on the wordpress site and sister sites, I’ve implemented an autonomous blog. The DNS will resolve to random.dragonslife.org, but for now the link is at http://www.dragonslife.org/random.

This is currently a screen scrape of a full wikipedia English article. It is posted once every two hours at 17 past the hour. I will look to expanding this to other free content sites as both an experiment and a bit of a learning experience. I’ve written some real quick prototype code which will be running it for now.

The reason for the poor documentation on the wordpress site may be the fact that is doesn’t employ it’s own services, but instead is compatible with the blogger API, movable type API, and perhaps others.

I ended up using a blogger class which can be found here: http://www.dentedreality.com.au/bloggerapi/class/. This class, with some simple modifications allowed for easy posting to the wordpress xmlrpc.php file. I have the modified source if anyone is interested.