Ramblings Moved to Tumblr

Not exactly sure why. I decided to make the home page of inarow.net something else (which isn’t done yet.) So, I started shopping around for blogging options. I see too much of wordpress on the clock, so I wrote that off. I ended up on tumblr because I liked their API, flexibility and capabilities.

Speaking of API, it was about an hour to import all my posts from bloxsom.

Install ruby-tumblr gem
Install RedCloth gem

Whip up a script

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'redcloth'
	require 'net/http'
	require 'uri'

	user = 'your@email.here'
	pass = 'thisisnotit'
	url = URI.parse('http://www.tumblr.com/api/write')

	ARGF.each do \|f\|
	f.strip!
	dt = `ls -lh --time-style=long-iso #{f}`
	dt.sub!(/.* 200/, '200')
	dt.sub!(/( .) ./, '\1')

	title = nil
	tags = nil
	body = ''
	File.open(f).each do \|l\|
	if not title then title = l
	elsif !tags and l.match(/^tags:/i) then
	tags = l.sub(/^tags:\s*/i,'').split(/,/).map {\|s\|s.strip.gsub(/_/,' ')}
	else
	body += l
	end
	end

	body.sub(/^\s*/, '')
	body = RedCloth.new(body).to_html

	# title, body, dt, tags
	res = Net::HTTP.post_form(url,
	{
	'email' => user,
	'password' => pass,
	'type' => 'regular',
	'generator' => 'CDMoyer\'s Custom Importer',
	'date' => dt,
	'tags' => tags ? tags.map {\|s\| "\"#{s}\""} .join(',') : "",
	'format' => 'html',
	'title' => title,
	'body' => body
	}
	)

	puts res.body
	sleep(5)
	end

view raw bloxsom_to_tumblr.rb hosted with ❤ by GitHub

Run the script

find blog/entries/ -type f -name ‘*.txt’ | grep -v ‘draft/’ | ruby tumbleit.rb

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