Example of using xmlrpclib to efficiently fetch the posted entry URLs for all posts on a blog...

GrabBlogLinks.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import xmlrpclib

postLimit = 1000

if (len(sys.argv) < 4):
	print "Usage: %s <blogAPIURL> <username> <password>" % sys.argv[0]
	print "E.g.: %s http://example.com/xmlrpc.php daniel 1234" % sys.argv[0]
	sys.exit(0)

blogServer = xmlrpclib.Server(sys.argv[1])

# All posts from 0 to postLimit, excluding all fields except 'link'
allPosts = blogServer.wp.getPosts(1, sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], {"offset" : 0, "number": postLimit}, ['link'])

allLinks = [x['link'] for x in allPosts]

print "\n".join(allLinks)