posterous.py

import httplib, os, urllib, base64, datetime

folder = <<workfolder>>
url = "posterous.com"
user = <<userid>>

def file_contents(filename):
  readfile = open(folder + "\\" + filename, 'r')
  date = readfile.readline().strip('\n')
  content = readfile.read()
  content =  content.replace("\n","<br/>")
  readfile.close()
  title = filename[0:filename.find('.')]
  #print (title, date, content)
  return (title,date,content)

def move_file(fn):
  os.rename(folder + "\\" + fn, folder + "\\posted\\" + fn)

def post_to_posterous(ttt):
  title = ttt[0]
  date = ttt[1]
  if (date == ""):
    date = str(datetime.datetime.now())
  content = ttt[2]
  body = urllib.urlencode({"body":content,"title":title,"date":date})
  headers = {"Content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}
  header_text = base64.encodestring(user + ":" + password)
  header_text = "Basic " + header_text[:-1]
  headers["Authorization"] = header_text
  conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(url)
  conn.request("POST", "/api/newpost", body, headers)
  resp = conn.getresponse()
  print resp.read()
  conn.close()

password = raw_input('pw>>')
for f in os.listdir(folder):
  if (f[f.find('.')+1:]=='post'):
    post_to_posterous(file_contents(f))
    move_file(f)
raw_input('press enter to close')