generate weekly wordpress roundup list

weekly

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""a script for fetching posts from wordpress, and then autogenerating markdown files for end-of-week-posts."""


from __future__ import division, print_function
import xmlrpclib
import datetime
import os
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
MAX_POSTS = 100
#adjust for your own domain
url = 'http://YOUR_DOMAIN.com/xmlrpc.php'
#input your blog username and pw
myusername = 'YOUR_WP_USERNAME'
mypassword = 'YOUR_WP_PASSWORD'   

#fill in your desired categories. note that you don't want to have a post assigned to more than one, or you'll have duplicates.
all_categories = ['Featured', 'Business', 'Design', 'Apps', 'Startups', 'Uncategorized']

#for weekly roundup posts, figure out date for when the past week started, i.e. last monday
today = datetime.date.today()
last_monday = str(today - datetime.timedelta(days=today.weekday()))
lastmonday_fourdigit = last_monday[5:7] + last_monday[8:10]
 
server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(url)
result = server.metaWeblog.getRecentPosts(url, myusername, mypassword, MAX_POSTS)

f = open("weekly.md", "wb")
for category in all_categories:
  print('', file=f)
  print("""###""", category, file=f)
  for post in result:
     post_title = post['title'].encode('ascii', 'ignore')
     post_date = str(post['date_created_gmt'])
     tags = post['mt_keywords']
     categories = post['categories']
     description = post['description']
     desc_minus_image = BeautifulSoup(description).get_text()
     permalink = post['permaLink'].encode('ascii', 'ignore')
   #  if tag_to_fetch in tags and post_date[4:8] >= lastmonday_fourdigit:
     if category in categories and post_date[4:8] >= lastmonday_fourdigit:
        print("""* [%s](%s) %s/%s""" % (post_title, permalink, post_date[4:6], post_date[6:8]), file=f)
f.close()