mirroring to Facebook

[mmegaera]

Is it possible to mirror from DW or LJ to Facebook? If so, how?

And thanks to those who sent me funny stories. I needed them, and they helped.

I suspect it's going to take a while to pull out of this one, but every little bit...

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[azurelunatic]

I use the service If This, Then That, plus the syndicated feed of my public journal entries. Yours would be at http://mmegaera.dreamwidth.org/data/rss (it only shows locked stuff if you are logged in).

It works a la this recipe: https://ifttt.com/recipes/8100


My particular version is a little more complicated: I use a tag on DW to indicate whether I want it crossposted (by using the feed for that tag as described in http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=117), and on Facebook's end have restricted posts originating from IFTTT to a security group who already knows who I really am.

[mmegaera]

Thanks! I wonder if I can use that to make my Wordpress blog mirror over here, too?

[azurelunatic]

Ooo, something like if RSS from your WordPress, then send an email to the Dreamwidth email-post address?

There's Dee's plugin, too: http://wordpress.org/plugins/journalpress/

[mmegaera]

Okay, you've kind of lost me here. I'd just plug in http://mmjustus.wordpress.com, then mmegaera.dreamwidth.org, and tell it to use the body copy? I'm not sure what you mean by the RSS address. I know what an RSS feed is, but I'm not sure how the address is different, exactly, or why I'd need to use it instead, when I didn't have to use the RSS for my DW address when I did the mirror to my Facebook page.

I've seen that plug-in before, too, but apparently it doesn't work with wordpress.com (hosted on wordpress's servers) as opposed to wordpress.org (hosted on a third party server). I have a wordpress.com blog.

[azurelunatic]

Ah, alas wordpress.com.


Sorry about being confusing. The thing is, IFTTT doesn't have a "post to Dreamwidth" action. You would use the RSS feed from http://mmjustus.wordpress.com -- but what then? I was on the point of saying that it couldn't be done, but then I remembered that IFTTT has a "send email" action, and Dreamwidth has a "post by email" setting, so I think it might be able to be done. http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/emailpost -- you'd have to set up action@ifttt.com as an allowed sender there, and then the mmegaera+YOURPINHERE@post.dreamwidth.org as the email address to send to.

I'm poking at IFTTT now and trying to see if I can get it set up so I can give the exact steps, but so far IFTTT is choking on http://mmjustus.wordpress.com/feed/ and claiming it's not an RSS feed, which it clearly is.

[mmegaera]

Well, don't lose any sleep over it [g]. I just thought it might be a way to get round wordpress.com's standard set of plug-ins issue (they automatically install a set of the most used plug-ins, then don't allow customization, and apparently not very many of us want to cross-post from our blogs to our LJ/DWs).

I guess I just figured that the way IFTTT worked was you could enter any two bloggish addresses and it would automatically feed from one to the other. Sort of the mirroring version of unobtainium [g].

[azurelunatic]

It looks like it's not filling in the title in the feed quite right -- it's coming out as <title/> rather than <title>title goes here</title>. So that's why IFTTT's choking on it. Hm.

[mmegaera]

Thanks for checking. I wonder why it does that?