Poor man's advogato pull script

People seem to be losing diary entries occasionally, so I instituted a backup policy for my advogato diary. Here's the script.

(Kudos to advogato for having an XMLRPC API...)

#! /usr/bin/env python
import xmlrpclib, os, time, stat

 
 server = xmlrpclib.Server("http://www.advogato.org/XMLRPC")
n = server.diary.len('titus')

 
 entries = []
for i in range(n):
    print '... entry', i,
    created, modified = server.diary.getDates('titus', i)
    created = time.mktime(time.strptime(created.value, "%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S"))
    modified = time.mktime(time.strptime(modified.value, "%Y%m%dT%H:%M:%S"))

 
     filename = '%d.txt' % (i,)

 
     found = 0
    try:
        info = os.stat(filename)
        found = 1
    except OSError:
        pass
    
    if not found:
        print '--> changed/DNE'

 
         entry = server.diary.get('titus', i)
        open(filename, 'w').write(entry)
    
        os.utime(filename, (created, modified,))
    else:
        print 'unchanged.'

 
 

The only tricky part was figuring out how to extracted the created/modified value from the xmlrpc module, which required some digging...

--titus

p.s. apologies for the indentation; the actual HTML is properly indented, but it looks like advogato does funny things to it.