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Extending Radio's aggregator posting method

25 June 2004   

 

Extending Radio's aggregator posting method

I've been thinking about blogging via the Radio aggregator. I've already customised some of it, so that I use radioExpress (which I've re-written anyway). Now, when I click on the post icon, the title of the story is added to the title part of my post form, similar with the url.

post buttons from Radio's aggregator page

The Radio aggregator showing the POST icon, a # which the permalink, and a pencil icon which links through to the comment link for that item.

Anyway, what would be cool, is to have several post buttons. One for the old behaviour one for my new. And more importantly perhaps, one so that it creates a link blog type post which would use a different and minimal #itemTemplate (perhaps just a purple #). These could even be auto posted—I hit the post button, and that's what happens, with no further editing from me. (Though I could take this much further and get Radio to fetch the article, stick it into a page with the other items I'm intending to read, and perhaps even print it out?) I could also have different types of link blogs, (actually categories in Radio's parlance), and icons for them too.

I already have two different blog icons in my news2email process. two blog icons from my news2email page

Two blog buttons in my news2email emails. One to use Radio Express, one to use Radio's usual 127.0.0.1:5335/?idStory=159807 method, that is the old behaviour as noted above.

old behaviour with title and URL empty

Old behaviour, with empty URL and Title fields. Everything is in the post text field, even a via link. Forcing me to copy paste the URL and title from the post text into the correct fields.

new behaviour with Radio Express

New behaviour. Post text field contains the description element from the RSS feed, while the URL contains the permalink, and the title field contains the title of the post. No via link (so far).

 


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