Thu, 12 Jun 2008
Daily Links Automated
As can be seen from the previous post
I'm back!
The best bit is that post was created automatically. I use del.icio.us to bookmark
interesting things I read day to day. It has support for daily links posted to your blog but
that requires XML-RPC support which Blosxom doesn't have out of the box.
So I wrote a small
perl script which downloads links daily and creates a post if there are any
for that day. Most of the heavy lifting is done by Net::Delicious (which I
turned into a deb package
for Ubuntu Hardy) and to save time a lot of inspiration was drawn from Edward de Leau's WordPress
script.
Final problem. I want it to run at midnight UTC (del.icio.us' "get by date" API
works in UTC) in order to grab all the links for an entire day when they are
fresh, fresh, fresh. But how do you run this out of CRON on a system that is in
timezone "Australia/Sydney" with all it's daylight savings fun, fun, fun?
# Only want this to run just before midnight GMT 59 9 * * * /bin/date +\%z | /bin/grep -q 1000 && /path/to/delicious2blosxom.pl 59 10 * * * /bin/date +\%z | /bin/grep -q 1100 && /path/to/delicious2blosxom.pl
Run it twice a day but check for the current UTC offset first. The first covers
normal Sydney time, the second daylight savings. Sweet!
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