QSPress makes it easy to post to your WordPress weblog from Quicksilver. Making very short, spur-of-the-moment posts easy to publish.

QSPress is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License.

Download QSPress.rb 02 Jan 2008

Sections
Requirements
Installation
Usage
Version History
Other Variations

Requirements

• Quicksilver
• A WordPress blog (or a blog that understands the MetaWeblog API – I haven’t tested it on other platforms)

Installation

1. You’ll need to enter your weblog credentials within the script. Don’t worry – it’s stuff you already know.
2. Install any rubygems needed (rb-appscript, mime-types)
   
sudo gem install rb-appscript
sudo gem install mime-types

3. Save this script into ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions
   – (if the folder isn’t there – create it)

Usage

1. Activate Quicksilver
2. Hit ‘.’ to activate the text area
3. Type
4. Hit the tab key to and type ‘qspress’ – or as much of it as you need to.
5. Hit Enter. If you get a number as response, the post was successful.

Version History
02 Jan 2008
Ported to Ruby
Posts can now be flagged as drafts
Files can be uploaded as well

10 May 2007
Now supports categories.

14 April 2007
The script now makes a title from the first 40 characters of the post rather than using the date as the title.

21 February 2007
Hello World.

Other Variations

• Jaymis Loveday’s version supports an explicit title rather than the implicit title I prefer.
• Graham English’s version adds Growl notification.

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