La Salle Debain

Open Source @ Consolidated Braincells Inc.

About La Salle Debain

This is a weblog I'm keeping about my work on Debian and any other useful Debian related info I come across. It is not meant to compete with other news sources like Debian Weekly News or Debian Planet. Mostly it is just a way for me to classify and remember all the random bits of information that I have floating around me. I thought maybe by using a blog it could be of some use to others too. Btw. "I" refers to Jaldhar H. Vyas, Debian developer for over 8 years. If you want to know more about me, my home page is here.

The name? Debain is a very common misspelling of Debian and la salle de bains means bathroom in French.

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Saturday, April 23 2005

Exporting from Advogato

If you want to do as Joey Hess did and import Advogato entries into your blog, you should take his advice and use the XML-RPC interface. To do so, may I suggest my WebService::Advogato perl module? I haven't gotten around to getting it in Debian yet, though the source does include a debian directory. A simple script to include all entries might look like this:

	#!/usr/bin/perl
	use strict;
	use warnings;
	use WebService::Advogato;
	
	my $client = WebService::Advogato->new('user'. 'password');
	
	my $numentries = $client->len('user');
	
	if ($numentries > 0)
	{
	  for my $index (0 .. $numentries - 1)
	  {
	    my $entry =  $client->get('user', $index);
	    my ($date_created, $date_lastupdated) = $client->getDates('user', $index);
	    # Now munge into whatever format your blog uses.
	  }
	}

Of course you should replace 'user' and 'password' with your real username and password.

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