Posterous was a simple blogging platform started in May 2008, funded by Y Combinator. In February 2013, Posterous announced that they would be shutting down the service on 30 April 2013.
Questions tagged [posterous]
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posting the contents of a markdown file to posterous with curl
I want to push my blog posts with curl. the body of my blogpost is contained in a markdown file post.md
I am trying the following command:
curl -vX POST --user login:pwd -d "api_token=mytoken" -d post[body]=
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Posterous Theming Image hover box
Within posterous when you hover on an image it displays a box enabling the user to download or view the full size image. Here is the example of how this should work.
I am trying to find out why this does not work in the theme I created Here. Any…
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Posterous api php curl
Anyone see anything wrong with this, it is not working and its returning null.
$request = array(
"api_token" => $token,
"name" => null,
"byline" => "via api",
"owner_id" => null,
"id" => $id,
"raw_theme" => $t,
"friendly_name" =>…
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Posterous API, new post with special characters in title
I'm writing a script to drag all of my images from TwitPic to Posterous but I'm having problems with the some of the characters in the title, here's an example:
"My awesome title --> some more text"
So when I run the title through urlencode() it…
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PHP - Email-in posting (like Posterous)?
I have a small web app to which users upload photos. I want to let them email in their photos (from their iPhones/Android phones) and a number associated with that photo. It'd be kind of like posterous but only allow emails with one photo and one…
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Wordpress: getting latest post/image to display on an external (Posterous) site template
I have a site currently built on Wordpress. I have a requirement to pull out the "latest post" in a category (magazine issue), to allow the latest issue to be displayed in the sidebar of a Posterous blog template, either in an iframe or by other…
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Twitpic not working, Posterous is... why?
I was using the Twitpic API from in my iPhone app for a while with no problem, then suddenly it started reporting: invalid username or password.
I changed the URL to that of yfrog and they reported: could not find the media.
I changed the URL to…
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How do I use the Posterous API for reading posts?
I want to extract the blog content from my Posterous blog using the API call of http://posterous.com/api/readposts?hostname=NAMEOFSITE
When entering the above address in a web browser, it returns the content in XML format.
What I'm stuck on is how I…
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Migrating from posterous to jekyll gives a 500
when i try to use jekyll's importer to grab my posterous blog, i get the following error:
ruby -rubygems -e 'require "jekyll/migrators/posterous"; Jekyll::Posterous.process("me@gmail.com", "mypass",…
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get posterous site_id, php (either preg_match or json_decode?) = no joy
I'm trying to get a user's site_id from posterous. This data seems to be nowhere in the user's profile, and nothing in the FAQ or help or docs indicates how to find this.
The only method I can find is to request a list of sites over API,
So, that's…
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Why is 'overflow:auto' CSS not working when using some browsers
I went to Settings > Edit Theme > Advanced and added this to it, under