posterous_blog.py

python << EOF
# Post to Blog
import vim 
import urllib2, urllib
import base64
import markdown2

blog_email = 'my@email.com'
blog_password = 'mYpA$$W0RD'
site_id = "123456"
api_url = 'http://posterous.com/api/newpost'

def post_blog():
    title = vim.current.buffer[0]
    body = markdown2.markdown('\n'.join(vim.current.buffer[2:]))

    params = urllib.urlencode({ 
        'site_id': site_id,
        'title': title,
        'body': body,
        'autopost': '0' 
    })  

    req = urllib2.Request(api_url, params)
    base64string = base64.encodestring('%s:%s' % (blog_email, blog_password))[:-1]
    req.add_header("Authorization", "Basic %s" % base64string)
    handle = urllib2.urlopen(req)
    print handle.read()

    vim.command('set nomodified') 
EOF