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posterousBackup

PosterousBackup is a project mainly written in Groovy, it's free.

One easy way to backup all of your posterous blogs

Backup all your posterous blogs

Requirements

Java v1.5 / v1.6+
Groovy

How to use

# groovy posterous.groovy

This is posterous export script v 0.1
error: Missing required options: u, p, o
usage: groovy posterous.groovy -u email@posterous -p password -o outputFolder
 -h,--help provides full help and usage information
 -o,--output  An eventually existing output folder, where all data will be output. Beware, if some data exists in that folder, it may be overwritten.
 -p,--password  Unfortunatly one have to give its password to this little script
 -u,--username  Sets posterous mail address here

On the first run grape (groovy package manager) will download and install all required dependencies.

File Structure

One folder for each site.
In each folder, entries keep the file name they have in posterous, followed by a nice .xml extension.
Each media associated to an entry uses the entry name, followed by _#anumer, where the #number is the media number.

+---knackfx.posterous.com all-your-bases-are-belong-to-rest.xml cant-wait-for-the-671.xml knack-it.xml netbeans-671-available-for-download.xml rest-in-game.xml serve-me-good-games.xml whats-new-today.xml

---riduidel.posterous.com il-mavait-prevenu-le-bougre.xml il-mavait-prevenu-le-bougre_0.png il-mavait-prevenu-le-bougre_1.jpg tester-lutilisation-de-la-memo.xml tester-lutilisation-de-la-memo_0.gif tester-lutilisation-de-la-memo_1.jpg the-big-band-theory.xml the-gaf-collection-collected.xml the-gaf-collection-collected_0.jpg the-gaf-collection-collected_1.jpg xkcd-movie-narrative-charts-0.xml

XML Structure

<post>
  <title><!-- posterous title--></title>
  <date>2008-12-31T17:48:00.000+0100<!-- posterous post date in a quite standard form --></date>
<author>
  <name><!-- author name --></name>
  <pic><!-- author pic --></pic>
</author>
<body><![CDATA[
<!-- post body, protected from XML interpreting by the CDATA section
   ]]></body>
<comments>
<comment>
<author>
  <name></name>
  <pic></pic>
</author>
  <date></date>
<body><![CDATA[
   ]]></body>
</comment>
</comments>
</post>

License

creative commons license : paternity, share-alike, no commercial use.

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