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2020-09-04
A quick thought regarding acdw's recent entry⁰ about posting entries directly to gemlog.blue from emacs.
acdw mentions a stretch goal of using emacs' own URL module instead of the emacs-requests, it happens that what he has done is almost usable by the url module already. The mm-url module (originally written for gnus) provides a necessary url encoding helper function "mm-url-encode-www-form-urlencoded" (what a mouthful!), but it takes a list of pairs in much the same way as the emacs-requests format, set a Content-Type and Bob's your uncle.
(defun post-to-gemlog-blue (post-title user pass)
(interactive "sTitle: \nsUsername: \nsPassword: ")
(let ((url-request-method "POST")
(url-request-extra-headers '(("Content-Type" . "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")))
(url-request-data (mm-url-encode-www-form-urlencoded `(("title" . ,post-title)
("gemloguser" . ,user)
("pw" . ,pass)
("post" . ,(buffer-string))))))
(with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously "https://gemlog.blue/post.php")
(goto-char (point-min))
(re-search-forward "\\(gemini://.*\\.gmi\\)")
(elpher-go (match-string 1)))))
gemlog.blue returns a full page of HTML with the gemini link embedded in it, so passing the result buffer (the output of url-retrieve-synchronously) to with-current-buffer allows some grungy text munging to carve up the text/HTML appropriately. With a single gemini URI available through the regex group, elpher can be launched. This could be a lot cleaner and more robust, emacs has a number of XML/HTML libraries that could probably parse the resulting HTML. As far as neat hacks though, this seems to work fine.
In testing the above snippet out I ended up creating and deleting a number of entries -- pardon the dust!