When I noticed that something like indexing services for blogs exists, I hacked simple dog command to download ping page. This worked more or less, but it didn't gave me any feedback. Today I decided it's time to switch to something more sophisticated.
As most (if not all) services are using XML-RPC with same functions, implementing this in python using xmlrpclib was quite easy. After few minutes reading documentation I had working code which can be attached to publish command in nanoblogger:
import xmlrpclib
import sys
def do_ping(url):
print "Pinging %s ... " % url,
sys.stdout.flush()
try:
s = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(url)
r = s.weblogUpdates.ping("Nijel's Weblog", "http://blog.cihar.com/")
if r['flerror']:
print "FAILED"
print " error: %s" % r['message']
else:
print "ok"
sys.stdout.flush()
except Exception,v:
print "FAILED"
print " error: %s" % str(v)
do_ping("http://ping.blo.gs/")
I'm only affraid that ping services don't like me much now as during testing I produced lots of pings :-).
