How to write a blog using Google Wave Robot for Posterous

Note: If you have problem with inputing the password, change your browser to Firefox. Currently, Google Wave has a lot of bugs with webkit browser.

Using Google Wave? And have a Posterous account? Now you can write your posterous blog in Google Wave now!

The Google Wave Robot for Posterous is built using Posterous API and Google Wave Robot Python Library. I will explain here how to use it.

1.In Google Wave, add posterous-robot@appspot.com in your contact.

2.Start a new Wave, and add posterous-robot@appspot.com as a participant.

3.There will be a form in the wave. Click "Done" and fill out the form using your Posterous account. Click "Login to Posterous".

4.Now you can post through Google Wave Robot for Posterous. Start a new wave and add the robot like in step 2. Edit the root wavlet's title and body.

5.Click "Done" and your post will be sent. You will get a post.ly url for your new post. Congratulations!

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Aug 12, 2009

Ahsan Ali said...

On Chrome/Linux, I can't click into the password field. The cursor moves to the start of the "Password" label. I can't tab into it either.

Aug 17, 2009

Ilyas Al lawati said...

Hi, How do get an account on Google Wave?

Sep 11, 2009

Jeff Van Campen said...

Thee "Login to Posterous" button doesn't seem to do anything at all in Firefox 3.5.

Sep 30, 2009

Markus T. said...

Hello kang can you invite me for Google Wave? Regards from Germany

Oct 01, 2009

Roshan Ramachandran said...

Password field & Login button are not working on Chrome 3.0

Kevin Arth said...

Unable to log into the bot. Any suggestions? Password doesn't enter into text field and can't click login button.

Oct 02, 2009

geggiot said...

Gadget like google maps doesnt work properly.

Got mine to work last night. Not sure what I did different. One thing I think I did differently is I created a new wave and added the Posterous bot, then clicked done. After that, I tried to log in and was permitted to do so. It seems that when still editing/composing the wave, the login fields don't function properly.

Jay Gauthier said...

wish i could play with this.... no invite. :-(

Sorry, Jay. I'm clean out. :(

no worries.. i'll survive. thanks anyhow man.

srndur said...

thanks for the how to! I have actually had trouble using FireFox but I had to in order to enter my password. But, I will use Safari first in GW.

Oct 05, 2009

imma said...

worked eventually :-D
it didn't like my @gmail.com address but i checked it's reply & it autoreplied to @googlemail.com which worked fine ;-)

although it needs a new wave per post? why not just a new blip - it'd be much *much* easier :-(

Oct 07, 2009

David Gross said...

I'm going to wait till they get the bugs out of it. I haven't had firefox since Chrome came out and I will not install it :)

Oct 09, 2009

Carolyn (http://posterous.com/people/3yqZW6Hjk), no, you don't have to confirm the Wave account in Posterous in order to post via the bot. Somehow, they've managed to sidestep that process in the Wave bot. You just log in via the bot and from that point forward, you can post via the bot.

Oct 10, 2009

Duško Kosanović said...

Password field and login button: work in FF 3.5.3, not work in Chrome 3. I want autopost control ;-)

Arthur Alston said...

Good job! (I was just wondering whether someone had written a Posterous Bot and found you).

Oct 12, 2009

Sung won Lim said...

Using chrome 3.0, and the password window doesn't respond to keyboard input.

Juan Manuel said...

Password field not working in safari 4.0 either

Mohomed Abdullahi said...

Yeah, so the sign on doesn't work with the password field in Chrome or Chromium. It does work in Firefox, but you have to wait a little bit for the button to work.

Oct 13, 2009

Juan Manuel Ruiz Lopez said...

It works with firefox but at the moment it only transfers text no pictures to the blog

Kahlil Lechelt said...

Can't type in the @-sign. Anybody else have that problem?

sean 808080 said...

lovely write up. quick and easy.

Oct 14, 2009

FWP Tech said...

I added the robot but I do not see the login form. Any ideas? Using Firefox on a Mac if that helps.

Oct 16, 2009

Fabrizio Ceccato said...

Great work! Thanks for sharing.

Tomislav Savov said...

Well done great. Thanks for sharing. :)

Oct 19, 2009

Richard Machida said...

Pretty cool! It works great once I switched to FF from Safari for the initial login. After that, it didn't seem to matter.
Thank you.

Oct 29, 2009

Nils Hitze said...

Works smoothly .. now you only have to add the Edit Feature and im TOTALLY Happy .. thx

Oct 30, 2009

KerrieAnne said...

posting to Posterous via GoogleWave - amazing just what you can do with Posterous & Googlewave's appbots http://blog.kangye.org/how-to-write-a-blog-using-google-wave-robot-f

Nov 01, 2009

Tom Ward said...

For some reason my Wave title also appeared in the body test. Have I done something wrong??

Tom Ward did you put your wave title in the first blip?
that one what becomes bolt.

Nov 04, 2009

Curtis Yanko said...

Works for me but attached images don't get posted.

Nov 11, 2009

Dak Ultimak said...

No attachments, inline or otherwise, were posted. That's unfortunate.

Nov 12, 2009

Deb J Jones said...

Okey-dokey, got it figured out (text-wise, anyways). Now, any plans to create an extension or bot to embed an entire Wave in a blog? Because that is my next step and I really like Posterous for its ease of use and would like to stay here!

Joerg Lauer said...

I love your robot, but what I would consider even cooler would be if you could add the robot to an existing wave and post that to posterous. Maybe by adding the login prompt in a reply instead of in the main body.

This way I could edit the wave for several iterations (possibly with friends) and post it once it is finished.

Nov 18, 2009

khalid_sa said...

i couldnt write the password to log in, i dont know why?

Nov 23, 2009

Nik Bowyer said...

Great idea. Look forward to seeing how this pans-out with further development!

Nov 24, 2009

Angelos Papazachariou said...

I can't type in the password field. Please fix the bug.

Nov 27, 2009

mindglow said...

Works with firefox 3 but pictures aren't submitted to posterous.

Dec 04, 2009

LinShui Lin said...

有说中文的朋友吗？

Dec 07, 2009

Jessica Kroger said...

agree that photo attachments would be nice.

Dec 10, 2009

essay said...

it's a good idea but I cann't sign in!help me please!

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