Week in review script using my improved XML-RPC API for MT

twin.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import gconf
import myxmlrpc as xmlrpclib

RPC_URL = "http://write.arstechnica.com/mt-xmlrpc.cgi"
RPC_USER = gconf.Client().get_string("/apps/cms/username")
RPC_PASS = gconf.Client().get_string("/apps/cms/password")
RPC_BLOG = "1"

ARTICLE_URLS = """
<URLS GO HERE>
""".strip().split("\n")

server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(RPC_URL, use_datetime=True)

for post in server.mt.getRecentPosts(RPC_BLOG, RPC_USER, RPC_PASS, 500):
  if any(u == post["link"] for u in ARTICLE_URLS):
    print '<p><a href="%(link)s"><b>%(title)s</b></a>: %(mt_excerpt)s</p>' % post