# Mephisto and rmote posting

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mephisto-and-rmote-posting/91164>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 5, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mephisto-and-rmote-posting/91164 "2007-04-05T08:44:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2007, 8:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mephisto-and-rmote-posting/91164/1 "2007-04-05T08:44:08Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m running a personal blog on Mephisto 0.7.3 with great  
satisfaction, but I’m experiencing some difficulties on posting to it  
through the apis.

After some research I’ve read that Mephisto supports xml-rpc with both  
the movable type and the MetWeblog API (and a quick dig in the source  
code seems to confirm that) but none of the services supporting remote  
posting seems to work.

As by now I’ve checked Ecto, Flickr and Scrapblog…

In the various case I get different errors, but the “smartest” one  
seems to be Flickr: he recognizes my endpoint  
([http://my-site.com/xmlrpc](http://my-site.com/xmlrpc)) but replies with an “Incorrect user name  
or password” error message.

Obviously I’ve triple-checked my authentication informations, and they  
are correct. I’ve also tried to create a custom user just for remote  
posting with no success.

Anyone can help or knows why I can’t use Mephisto’s remote blogging API?

–  
Ashkey \< Jules Piccotti

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mephisto-and-rmote-posting/91164/2 "2007-04-06T15:26:42Z")

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I’ve even tryed with FireScribe (was Performancing extension for  
Firefox) but without success…

Has anyone used Mephisto API with success? Because no matter how much  
I try, I have no success. Maybe there’s an API key management? I  
haven’t found anything about that.

2007/4/5, Ashkey [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> –  
> Ashkey \< Jules Piccotti

–  
Ashkey \< Jules Piccotti

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 6:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mephisto-and-rmote-posting/91164/3 "2007-04-06T18:13:33Z")

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Ashkey wrote:

> I’ve even tryed with FireScribe (was Performancing extension for  
> Firefox) but without success…
> 
> Has anyone used Mephisto API with success? Because no matter how much  
> I try, I have no success. Maybe there’s an API key management? I  
> haven’t found anything about that.
> 
> 2007/4/5, Ashkey [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):
> 
> > –  
> > Ashkey \< Jules Piccotti
> 
> –  
> Ashkey \< Jules Piccotti

Try generating the app docs and see if theres something in there on the  
API

cd mephisto  
mkdir doc  
touch doc/README\_FOR\_APP  
rake doc:app

the docs will be in doc/app

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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 8:53am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mephisto-and-rmote-posting/91164/4 "2007-04-07T08:53:59Z")

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On 4/6/07, Ashkey [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Has anyone used Mephisto API with success? Because no matter how much  
> I try, I have no success. Maybe there’s an API key management? I  
> haven’t found anything about that.

Posting to a Mephisto blog from MarsEdit works, with the exception of  
post deletion, which is due to a Blogger/MWL API ambiguity. I just  
delete posts when needed from the web interface. This may have been  
fixed in a recent version of either ME or Mephisto – I haven’t used  
them lately.

J.