Python Script For Posting To Blogger (Via OAuth2)

I hope somebody will find this Python script useful. I actually used this Python script to test things out first (and make sure that everything works) before I started work on fixing RavenPlus last year. I can't remember now, but I think the gist of this script came off from b.py - a Python script for posting blog posts to Blogger and Wordpress.

To post to your blog from this script, remember to replace the blogID "1087XXX5764091XXX95" in the line

post = service.posts().insert(blogId="1087XXX5764091XXX95", body=body, isDraft=False).execute(credentials.authorize(Http()))

with your blog's blogID.

To update an existing blog post, just replace the line above with the following (NOTE: you will need to find out what your blog post postID is, otherwise the statement will fail):

post = service.posts().update(blogId="1087XXX5764091XXX95", postId="4781959859649019078", body=body, publish=True).execute(credentials.authorize(Http()))

The OAuth2 login credentials is named 'plus.dat' and it must be located in the same directory as this Python script file.

I ran this script file under Python 2.4 with some customisation made to the Google API Python Client Library Version 1.2.

The Source Code

==== BEGIN ====

import sys

from oauth2client import client # , file, tools  # file and tools added by Chuah TC
from apiclient import sample_tools
# Chuah TC:  6-6-2015
from apiclient.discovery import build
from httplib2 import Http

# Chuah TC:  7-6-2015 - To fix [No handlers could be found for logger "oauth2client.util"] error message.
import logging
# 


def main(argv):
  # Chuah TC:  7-6-2015 - To fix [No handlers could be found for logger "oauth2client.util"] error message.
  logging.basicConfig(filename='debug.log',level=logging.WARNING)


  # Authenticate and construct service.
  print "--- 111 ---"
  credentials, service, flags = sample_tools.init(
      argv, 'plus', 'v1', __doc__, __file__,
      # CTC: OAuth 2.0 scope information for the Blogger API
      scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/blogger')

  print "--- 222 ---"
  
  
  service = build('blogger', 'v3', http=credentials.authorize(Http()))
  
  print "--- 333 ---"

  try:


      # "labels" : ["test", "test - don't read"],
      body = {
        "kind": "blogger#post",
        "published": u'2015-06-18T02:30:00-07:00',
        "title": "Date:19-7-2015 - Can we back date? - Posted Via PostNew.py",
        "content": "<p>Can we back date a new post?</p><p>Another Paragraph</p><p>Don't Read</p><p>Test posted via PostNew.py</p><p>Another Paragraph</p><p>Don't Read</p>"
        }

      post = service.posts().insert(blogId="1087XXX5764091XXX95", body=body, isDraft=False).execute(credentials.authorize(Http()))
      print post
      print "====="
      print "post url = ", post["url"]
      print "====="
      
      

  except client.AccessTokenRefreshError:
    print ('The credentials have been revoked or expired, please re-run'
      'the application to re-authorize')

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main(sys.argv)

==== END ====