{"id":11241,"date":"2007-10-14T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/10\/14\/movable-type-and-flickr.html"},"modified":"2007-10-14T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T02:46:07","slug":"movable_type_and_flickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/14\/movable_type_and_flickr.html","title":{"rendered":"Movable Type and Flickr"},"content":{"rendered":"

So a couple of months ago, I was having problems with Flickr,and it’s “e-mail-to-blog” functionality.  No matter what I tried, it threw back and error when I tried to post something (only discernible when I did the test function).<\/p>\n

(As a side note, finding this functionality in Flickr is not trivial.  Unless they’re positively advertising it, it’s not in an obvious place<\/a> in the menus.)<\/p>\n

I figured it was something wonky in my MT installation, until Doyce IMed me that he was having a similar problem in MT4, and pointed toward this discussion thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on that, I seem to have gotten the Flickr-to-blog stuff working, by creating a new blog to go to, but instead of using the Movable Type protocol, using the MetaWeblog protocol (it’s in the drop down in Flickr when adding a blog).  Where it asks for the API end-point, use the full path for mt-xmlrpc.cgi, and then use the login ID and API password<\/a> for the userid to post with.<\/p>\n

I tried this, and as the discussion thread indicated, it threw up an error in testing — but, it did actually post the test.  Not sure what’s going on there, or why other XML-RPC-based stuff I got to my blog with –e.g., ecto — works fine.  But it does worry me a bit that there’s some discussion on the boards about problems with this protocol and Movable Type 4.  So I’ll be keeping an eye on that, too.<\/p>\n

Meantime — expect more Blackberry-to-blog picture posts.  I hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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