I will have some content living and managed in Drupal.

However, some other content source will live on my desktop in a non-Drupal form. I can generate HTML from this content, and would like to post it to my Drupal site (e.g. as a story node, book node, etc.)

Is this possble? Would I need to use something like XMLRPC to do it? Any other options?

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pamphile’s picture

Try researching anyone of these tools
wbloggar, BlogJet, Qumana, Elicit, Ecto, RocketPost, WB Editor.

Marcel
http://01ftp.com - web based FTP
http://www.mxcounters.com - blog and website statistics
http://www.acmetutorials.com - useful tutorials you need

zigguratt’s picture

I've recently been able to use BlogDesk to successfully post content to my Drupal site. I've written a short tutorial on how to configure BlogDesk to talk to Drupal. I'm able to post blog entries, stories, pages and forum topics from within BlogDesk.

Take a look! BlogDesk is an overlooked gem.

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http://www.syrinx.net

itsme213’s picture

Sorry if I was unclear ... I do not want to simply post blog posts.

I will have a lot of content written off-line using other tools. I can create html from these tools (also offline). And I am willing to code up some stuff to post that generated html content into Drupal.

Are there programmatic APIs to do this kind of thing? Web-service based? XML-RPC? Where would I start ?

Thanks.

zigguratt’s picture

Actually, any of the so-called blogging tools can post more than just blog entries to Drupal. Thanks to the fact that everything's a node, you can create forum topics, stories, static pages, etc. -- as long as your site's admin has allowed it. If you still don't want to use a GUI you should look into the various blogging APIs (all based on XML-RPC), such as the MetaWeblog API (http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi). I think that's still your best bet to get content into Drupal remotely. Again, your admin will have to enable and allow you access to the blogapi.module.

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http://www.syrinx.net

itsme213’s picture

that clears it up.