Sam Ruby: 20 Jan 2003

Automatic Trackback in pyblosxom

Mon 20 Jan 2003 at 20:30

Wari Wahab: To do automatic trackback (in pyblosxom), what could happen is this:

When a new entry is noticed, parse the entry for links
Found a couple? Great, follow the links and look for trackback information, if not found in the current page, try out the RSS and see if the trackback module can be used.
Once we get the trackback ID, ping it with an excerpt of the entry.

I'll leave the "when a new entry is noticed" part to you, but I've implemented all the rest and for good measure added in a pingback client. You might want to tweak the excerpting logic to your needs. Enjoy!

Peanut butter in my chocolate

Mon 20 Jan 2003 at 19:53

Tom Hume: Solving the global identity problem: yep, that's a worthwhile cause, but it's a big problem, and I want to track comments *now*! :)

Pingback now with excerpts

Mon 20 Jan 2003 at 13:21

If things go according to plan, the next time I get a Pingback, I will attempt to extract an excerpt from the item from the weblog's associated RSS feed. Anybody care to test this out? Ping this item...