pywordpress: A Python repository from paulakg4

A pythonic interface to Wordpress using the Wordpress XML-RPC API.

Source code: https://github.com/rgrp/pywordpress

Usage

Command line

Check out the commands:

wordpress.py -h

Commands:

create_many_pages: Create many pages at once (and only create pages which do not already exist).
delete_all_pages: Delete all pages (i.e. delete_page for each page in instance).
delete_page: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.deletePage
edit_page: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.editPage
get_authors: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getAuthors
get_categories: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getCategories
get_page: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getPage
get_page_list: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getPageList
get_pages: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getPages
get_tags: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.getTags
init_from_config: Class method to initialize a `Wordpress` instance from an ini file.
new_page: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_wp#wp.newPage

You will need to create a config with the details (url, login) of the wordpress instance you want to work with:

cp config.ini.tmpl config.ini
# now edit away ...
vim config.ini

Python library

Read the code documentation:

>>> from pywordpress import Wordpress
>>> help(Wordpress)

Development

To run the tests you will need to:

Create a wordpress install for the tests to interact with (WARNING: the tests delete all pages on teardown. DO NOT test this code against a wordpress instance containing data you care about).

Create a config file called test.ini in the directory you will run the tests from:

cp config.ini.tmpl test.ini
# edit test.ini to reflect location and login or your test instance
vi test.ini
...

To run the tests then do:

nosetests test_pywordpress.py

Author

Rufus Pollock - http://rufuspollock.org/

License