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+This program will parse raw HTML pages of Kuro5hin diaries and post
+them to a Wordpress blog using in the Wordpress XMLRPC API.
+
+Requirements
+=============
+
+To use the program you will need the following software:
+
+* Python 3
+* The python-wordpress-xmlrpc package:
+ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-wordpress-xmlrpc
+
+Of course, you will also need the Kuro5hin diary entries you want to
+import. I grabbed mine from "What's Left of K5, AKA Mumble's Archive"
+described here:
+
+https://kr5ddit.com/post/754
+
+Using the Program
+===================
+
+This is how I used the data:
+
+1.
+
+I downloaded and unzipped this file:
+
+http://k5.semantic-db.org/diary-slurp/161942--archive-diaries--html-diaries--nested-format.zip
+
+2.
+
+My username is "makohill" so searched through and copied diary entries from the location of the unzipped entries with a command like this one:
+
+grep -l -r 'HREF="/user/makohill">makohill</A>' LOCATION_OF_ENTRIES|xargs -i cp {} .
+
+3.
+
+Once I did that, I modified and imported the data with a command like:
+
+./diary_parser.py 2002-12-26-9150-8083.html
+
+By default, the entries are posted with "pending" status so I could check then first. If you have many entries, you might want to tweak this. Details on the Wordpress XMLRPC API and the Python module I use is here:
+
+https://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_WordPress_API/Posts
+https://python-wordpress-xmlrpc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
+
+Copyright and License
+======================
+© Benjamin Mako Hill, 2018
+
+This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at
+your option) any later version.
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+#!/usr/bin/python3
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+""" Script to parse raw HTML pages that reflect Kuro5hin diaries and repost them to a Wordpress blog using in the Wordpress XML RPC API. """
+
+# © Benjamin Mako Hill, 2018
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+from subprocess import check_output
+import sys
+from lxml import html
+import re
+from dateutil import parser
+
+from wordpress_xmlrpc import Client, WordPressPost
+from wordpress_xmlrpc.methods.posts import GetPosts, NewPost
+from wordpress_xmlrpc.methods.users import GetUserInfo
+
+## EDIT THIS SECTION BEFORE RUNNING!
+#########################################################
+
+wp_user = "mako"
+wp_password = check_output(["gpg", "--quiet", "--batch", "--decrypt", "/home/mako/.copyrighteous_password.gpg.asc"]).decode("utf-8").strip()
+wp_xmlrpc_endpoint = 'https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/xmlrpc.php'
+wp_terms = {'post_tag': ['reflections', 'kuro5hin'],
+ 'category': ['Blog Posts']}
+archive_base_url = "https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/extra/kuro5hin_archives/"
+footer_html = """<hr />\n<p><i>Originally posted as a diary entry on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuro5hin">Kuro5hin</a>. Although Kuro5hin is now defunct, <a href="%(base)s%(filename)s">an archived copy of the post</a> includes a series of comments from the Kuro5hin community.</i></p>"""
+##########################################################
+
+wp = Client(wp_xmlrpc_endpoint, wp_user, wp_password)
+
+def process_file(input_text, filename):
+ sub = html.fromstring(input_text)
+
+ # grab the title of the post
+ title = sub.xpath("//title")[0].text
+ title = re.sub(" \|\| kuro5hin\.org$", "", title)
+
+ # timestamp
+ sub_metadata = sub.xpath('//font[text()="%s"]/../../../../font[2]' % title)[0]
+ date_string = re.sub(r"^.*((Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun).*?EST).*$", r"\1", sub_metadata.text_content())
+ post_date = parser.parse(date_string)
+
+ # post_html
+ sub_text = sub_metadata.xpath("../../../tr[2]/td[2]/p/font")[0]
+
+ # step1: add any material not in a sub_tag
+ post_html = sub_text.text
+ if not re.match(r'^\s*$', post_html):
+ post_html = "<p>%s</p>" % post_html.strip()
+
+ # add all the subtags
+ post_html += "\n".join([html.tostring(x).strip().decode("utf-8") for x in sub_text.getchildren()])
+ post_html = re.sub(r'<[Bb][Rr]>', '', post_html)
+ post_html = re.sub(r'[\t ]*(<[Pp]>)\s*', r'\1', post_html)
+ post_html = re.sub(r'\s*(</[Pp]>)[\t ]*', r'\1', post_html)
+ post_html = post_html.strip()
+
+ post_html = post_html + "\n\n" + (footer_html % {'base' : archive_base_url, 'filename' : filename })
+
+ # DEBUG CODE: you might want to uncomment this while testing
+ # list of comments
+ # print("***********OUTPUT: %s" % date_string)
+ # print(post_html)
+ # return
+
+ post = WordPressPost()
+ post.title = title
+ post.content = post_html
+ post.date = post_date
+ post.terms_names = wp_terms
+ post.post_status = "pending"
+
+ wp.call(NewPost(post))
+
+
+for filename in sys.argv[1:]:
+ with open(filename, "r", encoding="latin1") as f:
+ process_file(f.read(), filename)
+