[kdepim-users] Blogilo and Blogspot.com blog

[O. Sinclair]

On 24/06/2014 15:06, Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Saturday 21 of June 2014 08:13:48 O. Sinclair wrote:
>> On 16/06/2014 09:40, Daniel Vrátil wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 04 of June 2014 11:18:38 O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> Kubuntu 14.04 and KDE 4.13.1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It has been a while since I set up Blogilo to work with a
>>>> blogspot-hosted blog. Since then I have made "clean installation" and
>>>> now thought I would configure it again.
>>>>
>>>> Sadly Blogilo seems not to be maintained so the setup "wizard" for a
>>>
>>>> blogspot account fails. After much searching I found this suggestion:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> could you please open a new bug report against Blogilo on bugs.kde.org,
>>> please? I'll try to take a look at the blogspot support, but no promises
>>> ;-) On bugs.k.o it's more probably that someone will pick it up if I
>>> forget, or fail to fix it :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dan
>>>
>>>> ----------------
>>>>
>>>>     How to manually Configure BLOGILO (Blog manager for linux) for
>>>>     blogger.com
>>>>
>>>> 1)- Blog/Homepage URL-
>>>> http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1853225125323725410 (some thing
>>>> like this, copy the URL after login on blogger and open design/loyout
>>>> page for your specific blog)
>>>>
>>>> 2) USERNAME and PASSWORD -- abc at gmail.com and XXXXXXXX (as your login ID)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ADVANCE-
>>>> 1)- Select from dropdown box -- BLOGSPOT.COM
>>>> 2)- Blog ID- enter from above URL, like (1853225125323725410)
>>>> 3)- Text direction -- as u wish
>>>> now OK option is appeared
>>>> then click OK
>>>> ---------------------
>>>>
>>>> This seems to "kind of work" in that it seems that Blogilo contacts the
>>>> account, downloads titles of earlier posts and so on.
>>>>
>>>> But so far any attempt to post something is failing. Blogilo happily
>>>> reports that the post has been submitted but nothing shows up on the
>>>> blog, neither in Drafts or as a submitted post.
>>>>
>>>> Is anyone successfully using Blogilo with Blogspot or should I just give
>>>> up and look for an alternative?
>>
>> I used this existing bug to comment but no reply. Honestly it seems no
>> active development is going on which really is a pity:
>>
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298003
>
> Hi,
>
> I submitted for review a new backend for Blogspot.com which is using Google's
> Blogger API v3 and ported Blogilo to use it. It works fine, so hopefully the
> review will be done soon so that it can go to 4.14.
>
>

That is great news! Any way I can download and compile the new code?

Sinclair
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