Posterous plugin uses deprecated API?

  • vitasthefetus

    (@vitasthefetus)


    12 years ago

    I am wondering if someone can provide me with a definitive answer on the status of the www.ads-software.com posterous importer. After I got stuck on the spinner, I spent a few hours debugging this weekend and discovered that v0.10 of the plugin is calling https://posterous.com/api/getsites, which as far as I can tell is a defunct call to the old version of Posterous’s API. Consequently, Posterous returns a 500 error, and the plugin hangs (it doesn’t have a 500 response handler). So this would seem to be the end of the story – the plugin is irreparably broken without significant modifications, but I can’t find any definitive proof that the /api/getsites call is actually official defunct, so I can’t be certain that all hope is lost. If someone could provide the answer, I’d be very grateful.

    The solution that @dllh posted is good, but not great, because the wordpress.com plugin doesn’t import full-size images.

    Thanks
    Jacob

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  • The production version of the importer uses the old API. There’s a dev branch of the plugin referenced in a few posts here that may work somewhat better, but in general, you should consider both APIs essentially deprecated with the service going away in a couple of months. To be safe, go through the export steps Posterous recommends. If you can get the API to work, consider it a bonus. The first priority should be downloading the backup file Posterous provides, as it’ll be the only surefire way to make sure you have all of your media files in particular.

    Thread Starter vitasthefetus

    (@vitasthefetus)

    Thanks – the dev version worked (although it was hard to find – the svn and development link on the plugin website linked to v0.10) but all of the media link back to posterous.com. Is there a plan to address this? Do you want help?

    In all the testing I had done when I built the dev plugin, media files were imported and had their links updated. I wonder if something has changed. Patches are most definitely welcome. ??

    Thread Starter vitasthefetus

    (@vitasthefetus)

    Hmm. Interestingly, it looks like the links start as posterous links but then eventually convert themselves to local links. I guess the script runs in “stealth mode” after it appears to be complete. The one thing that doesn’t look like it’s going to fix itself are the videos – those seem to be permalinked to the posterous site. Is that intentional?

    Also, any thoughts on why some of the images might be distorted (aspect ratio is wrong and they’re highly compressed) in the “thumbnail” view on the main page? See examples here: https://therachels.us/splog.

    Thanks
    Jacob

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