Mon, 06. Oct 2003
Antville, the software behind blogger.de, doesn't support trackbacks yet. As it is open-source, I'm sure it is going to be added sooner or later.
In the meantime, I wanted to be able to send trackbacks from posts I write and a found a solution based on Sam Ruby's autoping script.
I store all my blog entries in files that seem to be roughly similar to blosxom's style (i.e. title in the first line, body follows after that) on my machine in addition to posting it to blogger.de, so adapting Sam's script was straight forward. For anybody who wants to try the same, these are the steps I had to take:
- use
python2as executable as I'm running RedHat 7.x on my machine and/usr/bin/pythonis a 1.x version that doesn't know thesplitlinesmethod. - Change the url discovery algorithm in
excerpt- I've decided to put the "story-number" into the last line of my file. - change the excerpt-algorithm (I simply limit the excerpt to the first 250 characters of the body)
- Finally, and most easy, change the
blog_nameattribute.
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