@hackage nikepub1.0

nikepub

INTRODUCTION

nikepub is a simple commandline program that given a Nike+ user id will fetch the most recent Nike+ run and publish it to any blog and/or Twitter account. Assumes the Nike+ user profile is public. Supports customizable templates for the blog entry title, body and Twitter status update. Any blogging system with XML-RPC support for metaWeblog.newPost (like WordPress or MovableType) is supported.

A description of the implementation can be found in this series of blog posts:

http://www.codemanic.com/uwe/2009/05/publishing-nike-runs-part-1-numeric-lists.html http://www.codemanic.com/uwe/2009/06/publishing-nike-runs-part-2-google-charts.html http://www.codemanic.com/uwe/2009/06/publishing-nike-runs-part-3-handling-xml.html http://www.codemanic.com/uwe/2009/06/publishing-nike-runs-part-4-string-templates.html http://www.codemanic.com/uwe/2009/06/publishing-nike-runs-part-5-blogging-and-twitter.html

INSTALLATION

nikepub comes as a cabal package so doing

$ runhaskell Setup configure --prefix=$HOME --user $ runhaskell Setup build $ runhaskell Setup install

in the untarred package directory will install nikepub in $HOME/bin.

USAGE

Example command line flags (fill in values where you see s):

nikepub --id=<your nike+ id>
--templates=
--mtUrl=
--mtUser= \ --mtPassword= \ --message= \ --twitterUser=
--twitterPassword=

The distribution package contains an example template directory. It can be used directly or customized. The example template files have all the supported \(fields\) in them. All three files must be present in a template directory. You might want to copy the template directory into a more convenient place.

Your Nike+ profile is assumed to be public. nikepub doesn't work with non-public profiles (if you publish your runs with nikepub you might as well have your profile public). Your Nike+ id is an integer. The simplest way to find it out is to share a run or your profile in the Flash UI on the Nike+ website by choosing to grab the link to the run you want to share in the Share menu. The pasteboard now has a URL with your Nike+ user id in the URL params.

The --message flag on the nikepub commandline lets you append an arbitrary message to the body of the generated blog entry.

BUGS, SUGGESTIONS, COMMENTS

Please send to uwe@codemanic.com