A simple command line tool for posting to the Diaspora microblogging network. Allows user to write or import .txt files and deploy them as posts to their Diaspora pod account. Written as a quick and dirty solution for blogging with Diaspora utilizing the Diaspy module. (Minimally) tested on macOS Sierra 10.12.2 with Python3 3.4.1 using vim or sublime -w as the editor configuration and diasp.org as the pod. The .txt file can be written with Markdown syntax, as Diaspora will render Markdown. However, I've only tested this with Markdown syntax for text (links, quotes, code blocks, etc) and not much else. I've included some screenshots of the two main use cases. Screenshots 1-3 depict the use of the post writing function and screenshots 4-5 depict the use of the post import function (with my own diasp.org profile as the output for the posts).
if you have the dependencies, clone this repository to a directory of your choice. Next, cd into the repo and edit the cfg.ini file.
diaspPodshould have the name of your Diaspora pod (for ex, https://diasp.org) ).diaspUsernameshould have your Diaspora username (for ex, harambe, doge, or harambe_doge, etc).diaspPasswordshould have your Diaspora password (for ex, honorTheLateHarambe).editCommandshould have your preferred editor (for ex, vim).postDirectoryshould have the path to the directory you want to use for your posts (for ex, /Users/harambe/diaspora-blogging/posts/).
Next, run the command python3 diasblog.py to begin the script. It should prompt you to decide whether or not to log in with login? y/n: . Type y to log in and n to log out. Presuming you typed y it will then prompt you to decide whether or not to write a post, import a post, or quit: write a post, import a post, or quit? w/i/q:.
Presuming you typed w, you'll be prompted to specify a name (foo.txt) for your file. Once you do so, the editor you specified will open to write the post (which will be saved to your post directory). When you are done with the post, exit the editor (for example, in vim type wq). Your text file will be read into a string and then posted to Diaspora.
Presuming you typed i, you will be prompted to specify the name of the .txt file you are to import from the post directory you specified earlier. This text file (foo.txt) is then read into a string and posted to Diaspora.