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In addition to posting files to a blog, blogtool can also do a number of other blog maintenance related operations like deleting posts, downloading posts, adding categories in addition to querying recent posts and current category lists.

There are also a number of options that allow for controling how blogtool operates such as specifying a blog to interact with (if you have multiples blogs), setting a time for a post to publish, using a different config file as well as several others.

A number of these options require a configuration file in order to work. They are marked with an ‘*‘ below.

Options

Following are command line options that can be specified for blogtool:

-c CONFIGFILE, –config= CONFIGFILE Specifies CONFIGFILE to use as for configuration information. This takes precedence over the default ‘.btrc’ file if specified. *
-b BLOGNAME, –blog= BLOGNAME Specifies to interact with blog BLOGNAME within a config file. Should match the NAME keyword. *
-a, –add-categories blogtool will attempt to verify categories specified in a post file to account for typos. If the catgories aren’t found, then the category will not be used. This overrides that default. Useful when adding a new category to the blog. *
–draft The post will not be published when it is pushed up to the blog.
-s TIMESTR, –schedule= TIMESTR Allows for scheduling of posts. See Time Strings below for how to spell TIMESTR.
-A, –allblogs If multiple blogs are specified in a config file, normally they must be specified using the NAME or BLOG keyword. This provides a shortcut for sending a post to all the blogs listed in the config file. *
-d POSTID, –delete= POSTID Delete the post POSTID. If multiple blogs are defined, then specify which blog to delete from with the -b option. *
-t NUM, –recent-titles= NUM Returns NUM of the most recent blog posts. If multiple blogs are blogs are defined, then a list is returned for each blog. If used with the -b option, only posts for that blog are listed. *
-C, –categories Returns a list of categories for a blog. If multiple blogs are defined, then specify the blog using the -b option. *
-n NAME, –new-categories= NAME Adds NAME to the category list for the blog. If multiple blogs are defined, then use the -b option to specify which one to add the category to. *
-g POSTID, –getpost= POSTID

Retrieves post POSTID from a blog. If multiple blogs are defined, then use the -b option to specify which blog to retrieve from. *

The returned post is printed out to STDOUT along with a header and an attempt is made to format it using Markdown syntax. If the output is captured, it should be possible to use blogtool to repost the captured output.

-u UPLOAD_FILE, –uploadmedia= UPLOAD_FILE Uploads file UPLOAD_FILE to a blog. Requires a config file to provide blog information. If multiple blogs are defined, then use the -b option to specify which blog to retrieve from. *
–comment= POSTID PARENTID Post text from a file as a comment to post POSTID. *
–charset=CHARSET Set the CHARSET to use to decode text prior to running it through markdown. *
-D COMMENTID, –deletecomment= COMMENTID Delete COMMENTID from a blog. *
-r POSTID, –readcomments= POSTID Retrieves all comments from post POSTID and displays them on the console. Comment text is converted to markdown syntax to ease reading. *
–editcomment= COMMENTID Edit comment COMMENTID already on the blog. The comment will be downloaded and an editor will be launched with the comment text formatted into Markdown syntax. A header is also generated with the metadata from the blog in it so it can also be edited, for instance to approve a comment held in moderation. *
-h, –help Command line help message
–version Output blogtool version string: blogtool version x.y.z.

* - These options require a configuration file in order to work.

Time Strings

The following strings may be used when scheduling a post for publication:

  • YYYYMMDDThh:mm
  • YYYYMMDDThh:mmAM/PM
  • YYYYMMDDThh:mm:ss
  • YYYYMMDDThh:mm:ssAM/PM
  • Month DD, YYYY hh:mm
  • Month DD, YYYY hh:mmAM/PM
  • MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm
  • MM/DD/YYYY hh:mmAM/PM
  • hh:mm MM/DD/YYYY
  • hh:mmAM/PM MM/DD/YYYY

Time String Key

YYYY
4 digit year
MM
2 digit month (padded with leading 0’s if necessary)
DD
2 digit day of month (padded with leading 0’s if necessary)
hh
2 digit hour
mm
2 digit minute (padded with leading 0’s if necessary)
AM/PM
specifies either ‘AM’ or ‘PM’ for time
Month
abbreviated month name
T
a literal ‘T’ character
/
a literal ‘/’ character
:
a literal ‘:’ character

Time String Examples

Some example time strings (these are all for the same time):

  • 8:30PM 03/09/2013
  • 20130903T20:30
  • Mar 09, 2013 8:30PM
  • 03/09/2013 20:30

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