Technical Question about Delicious and LJ/DW

[charmian]

Is there a technical reason why the blog posting thing at Delicious (it will automatically crosspost a daily digest of your delicious links) doesn't work with Livejournal or DW without the usage of an external script?

(Asking for a friend who wants to cross-post a digest of daily Delicious links to Dreamwidth)

Comments

[murklins]

It's been so long since I worked with any scripts other than my own, I'm no longer sure what goes on when you just use Delicious Glue out of the box to hook Del up to Dw. Guess I'll take your word for it that it's not pretty! I mostly write scripts for people who run fandom newsletters, and all those scripts need to do a LOT of processing on the raw post data Del sends -- they parse the post html and then group links by tag, sort alphabetically, that kind of thing, and then reconstruct it into LJ or Dw specific html (cut tags, user tags, etc). They also convert all the text to use Unicode entities. I think my test Del account is still hooked up to the Dw comm temporary via a very basic script and it seems to produce OK posts.

[matgb]

Hmm, looks like the encoding display problem may've been fixed:
http://matgb.dreamwidth.org/362902.html

Can't actually edit the post for auto formatting though. I normally go through it afterwards, pretty ip up and retitle it like so:
http://matgb.dreamwidth.org/363780.html

Ah well. I guess when I've got my own server space again I can look into some sort of automation, in the meantime, no link posts, which doesn't make much difference currently.

[murklins]

Since your server's not up this isn't useful to you now, but for future reference you might want to check out wistfuljane's post "How to make delicious' Blog Posting work for Dreamwidth using the original Delicious Glue". Of especial interest is probably the comment thread with afuna, where she explains how to set up the script such that Dreamwidth lets you edit the resulting posts.

[matgb]

Ah, most excellent, I had indeed missed that completely. Danke.