Manolo Martínez @ And the Like

1 year ago

Markdown to bbcode

@Friendica Support Hello, helpers,

I'm trying to get a system going for writing my posts in markdown (pandoc, really, but this is irrelevant for the present point) and then uploading them to Friendica.

I've noticed that the standard way in which markdown deals with code blocks (adding <pre><code>...</code></pre> to the html) does not play well with, I guess, the html2bbcode converter. In any event, my code displays as plain text.

Is there a way to fix this from this end?

@Friendica Support

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Manolo Martínez

1 year ago

Michael, thanks. It's not me, but the markdown specification that converts code to <pre><code>. I don't know why markdown does this, but it is displayed correctly in all of my browsers.

I will look into the diaspora converter, thanks.

Manolo Martínez

1 year ago

Emmanuel, thanks, so this means that my code should be displayed as code.

Would anyone be so kind to test posting through htmlstatus with a code box? Maybe I'm the only one to have this problem, for some reason...

Manolo Martínez

1 year ago

What I've been doing is using this little script:

API="http://social.manolomartinez.net/api/statuses/update.xml"
pandoc -s -o /tmp/translate.html -t html $1
read -p "Enter a title for your post: " TITLE
echo $TITLE > /tmp/title
read -p "Should we post this to the blog? (1/0):" WP
read -p "Username: " USERNAME
read -p "Password: " PASSWORD
curl $API -u $USERNAME:$PASSWORD --data-urlencode htmlstatus@/tmp/translate.html --data-urlencode title@/tmp/title --data wppost_enable=$WP > /dev/null 2>&1

You call it with, say, Post2F.sh yourfile
and it will upload the post to your wall. The second line (pandoc blah blah) is there because I write the post in a markdown extension, and then translate it to html. But you can simply use the argument to the script in the curl call.
If you notice, curl is posting to "htmlstatus", which accepts posts in html (as opposed to "status", which accepts them in bbcode, I think).

Manolo Martínez

1 year ago

Thanks Emmanuel. Posting <pre><code> does, too? (Btw, the script is mostly by Tony Baldwin, so it's someone else's neatness :)

Manolo Martínez

1 year ago

Reading api.php. It's not documented anywhere?

tony baldwin

1 year ago

I'm going to have to look at that.
I am not aware of any documentation mentioning it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

There's no documentation for the API at all mentioned on the wiki (https://github.com/friendica/friendica/wiki ).

That needs amended.

Mr. X

1 year ago

There's a lot of published doco on the Twitter/StatusNet API. We shouldn't need to rewrite/copy all of it.

However there are a few things like html posts and permission controls and plugins that we should have documented someplace and do not currently.

Manolo Martínez

1 year ago

@tony baldwin oh, it works all right. I'm using it. @Mike There's this little thing about code tags that is not working for me (see above). I guess I should just try to tweak the html before sending it to the api?

@tony baldwin @Mike

tony baldwin

1 year ago

Yeah.
I know how to send a post and control whether/where it is xposted, but that's it.

I would like to know more about permissions controls over api, especially, but also this html thing (I suppose I must read api.php).