Bilbo Blogger

2009 March 17

by Einar

Mtux, of choqok fame, along with another person, has written Bilbo Blogger, a blogging utility for Blogger or any blog that supports Blogger1.0, MetaWeblog, and MovableType APIs (EDIT: also GData). It is based on the KDE4 libraries and it includes a WYSIWYG editor, an HTML editor, and a Post Preview function that can even fetch your blog’s CSS to render the entry and see how it looks.

It’s not released yet, but for the daring, you can actually try and compile it. You need to check out and install the blogging library (BlboKBlog) first:

git clone git://gitorious.org/bilbokblog/mainline.git bilbokblog
cd bilbokblog
mkdir build; cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ../
make

followed by make install as root or using sudo.

Then, you need to check out the actual application:

git clone git://gitorious.org/bilbo/mainline.git bilbo
cd bilbo
mkdir build; cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ../
make

Again, a make install will do the trick.

After that, you can start the application and create a new blog (see the screenshot section on Bilbo’s web page), and the program will try to figure out what is needed automatically. Neat. After that, you can just start writing entries.

There are still rough edges, but I’m actually quite happy because I dislike blogging with a browser, especially since Konqueror is always a second-class citizen when it comes to Wordpress support, and I don’t want to use Firefox. As a matter of fact, this entry was written using Bilbo. So, hats off to the two developers!

6 Responses leave one →

2009 March 17

Elvis Stansvik permalink

Cool. I should try it out for my next post. BTW, can I ask you what plugin you’re using for the code listings on your WP installation? I’m not quite happy with the one I’m using and yours look really nice!
2009 March 17

Elvis Stansvik permalink

Oh nevermind, I just realized there was a little ‘?’ at each code listing I could use which would give me the info:

“dp.SyntaxHighlighter
Version: 1.5.1

http://www.dreamprojections.com/syntaxhighlighter
©2004-2007 Alex Gorbatchev.”

:)
2009 March 17

Persian permalink

Thanks Mehrdad Momeny & Golnaz Nilieh , Iranian developer …
2009 March 18

Matthew Smith permalink

Blogger no longer supports the Blogger API; it stopped doing so about two years ago. Blogger supports the GData API only. The Blogger/MetaWeblog/MT APIs are still good for Wordpress and many other CMS’s though (such as Movable Type and Drupal, albeit without CCK and other custom field support).
2009 March 18

Einar permalink

@Matthew

My bad, I forgot to add that Bilbo Blogger also supports GData.