blogpost media processing
May 22, 2008
blogpost 0.9.0 adds lots of new features to the previous 0.1.0 release. The most important feature in the blogpost 0.9.0 release is WordPress media file management:
- Media files (images, videos, audio, document) referenced in your AsciiDoc (or HTML) documents are automatically uploaded and linked to the uploaded blog.
- Only new or modified media files are uploaded (changes detected using cached MD5 checksums).
- Metadata caching means post options are remembered and don’t need to be repeated every time you update your posts.
- WordPress Pages can be posted and updated (blogpost includes a patched wordpresslib.py containing Page methods).
This blog post along with this inline image 
and this block image:
Were uploaded by using this blogpost create command:
$ blogpost.py create blogpost_media_processing.txt
uploading: /home/srackham/doc/blogs/smallnew.png...
url: http://srackham.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/smallnew.png
uploading: /home/srackham/doc/blogs/tiger.png...
url: http://srackham.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/tiger1.png
creating published post 'blogpost media processing'...
id: 93
url: http://srackham.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/blogpost-media-processing/
The info command lists locally cached information:
$ blogpost.py info blogpost_media_processing.txt
title: blogpost media processing
id: 93
url: http://srackham.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/blogpost-media-processing/
status: published
type: post
doctype: article
created: Thu May 22 17:45:34 2008
updated: Thu May 22 17:45:40 2008
media: http://srackham.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/tiger1.png
media: http://srackham.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/smallnew.png
Note how the update command skips uploading the unchanged image files:
$ blogpost.py update blogpost_media_processing.txt
skipping: /home/srackham/doc/blogs/smallnew.png
skipping: /home/srackham/doc/blogs/tiger.png
updating published post 'blogpost media processing'...
id: 93
url: http://srackham.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/blogpost-media-processing/
Here’s the AsciiDoc blog file that generated this weblog entry:
blogpost_media_processing.txt
blogpost media processing
=========================
//
// Blog outlining blogpost media processing.
//
'blogpost' 0.9.0 adds lots of new features to the previous 0.1.0
release. The most important feature in the 'blogpost' 0.9.0 release
is WordPress media file management:
- Media files (images, videos, audio, document) referenced in your
AsciiDoc (or HTML) documents are automatically uploaded and linked
to the uploaded blog.
- Only new or modified media files are uploaded (changes detected
using cached MD5 checksums).
- Metadata caching means post options are remembered and don't need to
be repeated every time you update your posts.
- WordPress Pages can be posted and updated (blogpost includes a
patched wordpresslib.py containing Page methods).
pass::[<!--more-->]
This blog post along with this inline image image:smallnew.png[] and
this block image:
image::tiger.png[]
Were uploaded by using this 'blogpost' create command:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
$ blogpost.py create blogpost_media_processing.txt
uploading: /home/srackham/doc/blogs/smallnew.png...
url: http://srackham.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/smallnew.png
uploading: /home/srackham/doc/blogs/tiger.png...
url: http://srackham.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/tiger1.png
creating published post 'blogpost media processing'...
id: 93
url: http://srackham.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/blogpost-media-processing/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The 'info' command lists locally cached information:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
$ blogpost.py info blogpost_media_processing.txt
title: blogpost media processing
id: 93
url: http://srackham.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/blogpost-media-processing/
status: published
type: post
doctype: article
created: Thu May 22 17:45:34 2008
updated: Thu May 22 17:45:40 2008
media: http://srackham.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/tiger1.png
media: http://srackham.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/smallnew.png
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Note how the update command skips uploading the unchanged image files:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
$ blogpost.py update blogpost_media_processing.txt
skipping: /home/srackham/doc/blogs/smallnew.png
skipping: /home/srackham/doc/blogs/tiger.png
updating published post 'blogpost media processing'...
id: 93
url: http://srackham.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/blogpost-media-processing/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's the http://www.methods.co.nz[AsciiDoc] blog file that generated
this weblog entry:
.blogpost_media_processing.txt
---------------------------------------------------------------------
include::blogpost_media_processing.txt[depth=1]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The how's and why's are explained on the
http://srackham.wordpress.com/blogpost1/[blogpost(1) man page].
The how’s and why’s are explained on the blogpost(1) man page.