#posterous

No more posting from WordPress. Stopped. Deleted a gazillion posts from the early years of this Tumbl because they contained links to things that no longer exists - 'posterous' was one of them.

Hari ini aktifitas saya cuma mengatur blog di posterous. Ceritanya saya mendapat info bahwa twitter akan mematikan layanan posterous. Setelah searching sana sini ternyata ada banyak orang yang memang sedang memback up artikel mereka di posterous.

Padahal banyak foto hasil jalan-jalan disana. Gawat juga kalau beneran nanti posterous ditutup. Jadi satu-satunya cara adalah dengan memback up dan mengimpornya ke wordpress.

Jika ingin mengimpor artikel dari posterous ke wordpress self hosting, caranya mudah, download plugin Posterous Importer ke wordpress. Aktifkan kemudian jalankan di Tools — import — posterous.

Nanti semua postingan di posterous otomatis akan pindah ke blog wordpress kita.

If you want to let your own script subscribe to Posterous directly via PubSubHubbub (powered by Superfeedr, but in this instance not going through their dashboard), here's an example.

$ curl -vd 'hub.mode=subscribe&hub.verify=sync&hub.callback= http%3A%2F%2Fcharlvn.za.net%2Fsomescript.php&hub.topic= http%3A%2F%2Fp.charlvn.com%2Frss.xml' http://posterous. superfeedr.com

In the above, http://charlvn.za.net/somescript.php would be my script (which has to be set up first) and http://p.charlvn.com/rss.xml is the Posterous feed I'm trying to subscribe to.

If you receive a HTTP/1.1 204 No Content response, you should be fine.

Now, somescript.php could be something like this:

<?php  if (isset($_REQUEST['hub_challenge'])) {  echo $_REQUEST['hub_challenge']; } else { $document = new DOMDocument(); $document->load('php://input');     $xpath = new DOMXPath($document);     $xpath->registerNamespace('atom', 'http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom');     $status = $xpath->evaluate('string(//atom:entry/atom:title)'); if (trim($status)) { $uri = 'http://charlvn:[email protected]/statuses/update.xml? status=' . urlencode($status);   $context = stream_context_create(array('http'=>array ('method'=>'POST'))); file_get_contents($uri, 0, $context);} }

You might notice here that even though the original feed is in RSS format, the code that gets pushed to you is in Atom.

Always blindly accepting the hub_challenge is maybe not a good idea. However, not much harm done as long as you keep the URL of the script secret.