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This is a workflow for Editorial, a Markdown and plain text editor for iOS. To download it, you need to view this page on a device that has the app installed.

Description: This workflow is based on the Post to WordPress workflow (linked below) and modified to work with the ExpressionEngine MetaWeblog API implementation.

It takes a Editorial document, allows you to customize/create a title (defaults to file name), choose a category (fetched from EE), and then publish your new entry to ExpressionEngine.

See the two Python scripts in the workflow and customize them with your API endpoint, including the ExpressionEngine Channel you want to publish to.

Shared by: http://eeinsider.com/blog/publishing-to-expressionengine-from-editorial

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Set Variable ?
Variable Name
cats
Value
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Source Code
import xmlrpclib
import workflow
import pickle
import keychain
import console

categories = workflow.get_variable("cats")
ee_url = "" # Place the Metaweblog API URL here. You can find in EE in the Metaweblog API module settings.
ee_blogid = ""

# keychain.delete_password('expressionengine', 'editorial')
login = keychain.get_password('expressionengine', 'editorial')

if login is not None:
	ee_username, ee_password = pickle.loads(login)
else:
	ee_username, ee_password = console.login_alert('Please login', 'No login credentials found in keychain.')
	pickle_token = pickle.dumps((ee_username, ee_password))
	keychain.set_password('expressionengine', 'editorial', pickle_token)


console.show_activity('Fetching categories...')
 
server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(ee_url, allow_none=True)
 
cat = server.metaWeblog.getCategories(ee_blogid, ee_username, ee_password)

i = 0
for x in cat:
	categories += '\n' + x['categoryName'] + "	" + str(i)
	i = i+1
	workflow.set_variable("cats", categories)
console.hide_activity()
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Source Code
import xmlrpclib
import workflow
import pickle
import keychain
import console

categories = workflow.get_variable("cats")
ee_url = "" # Place the Metaweblog API URL here. You can find in EE in the Metaweblog API module settings.
ee_blogid = "1"

#keychain.delete_password('expressionengine', 'editorial')
login = keychain.get_password('expressionengine', 'editorial')

if login is not None:
	ee_username, ee_password = pickle.loads(login)
else:
	ee_username, ee_password = console.login_alert('Please login', 'No login credentials found.')
	pickle_token = pickle.dumps((ee_username, ee_password))
	keychain.set_password('expressionengine', 'editorial', pickle_token)

status_draft = 0
status_published = 1

console.show_activity('Opening connection...')

server = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(ee_url)
 
title = workflow.get_variable('postname')
content = workflow.get_variable('content')

cat = server.metaWeblog.getCategories(ee_blogid, ee_username, ee_password, 'category')

cat_nb = workflow.get_variable("catID")
 
categories = [cat[int(cat_nb)]['categoryName']]

data = {'title': title, 'description': content, 'post_type': 'post', 'categories': categories}

console.show_activity('Publishing...')
 
post_id = server.metaWeblog.newPost(ee_blogid, ee_username, ee_password, data, status_published)
 
post_infos = server.metaWeblog.getPost(post_id, ee_username, ee_password)

console.hide_activity()
 
# print post_infos['link']
# clipboard.set(post_infos['link'])

console.hud_alert('Post published', 'Success', 1.0)
workflow.set_output('Success')
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