#!/usr/bin/env python

#blogger-back.py
#Copyright 2007 John C. Vernaleo
#john@netpurgatory.com
#v0.5 04/30/2007
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#This is an extremely simple way to back up a blog on Google's
#blogger beta (the one using your google account) and its comments.
#You must set site feed to full from dashboard.
#This is only capable of saving the 1000 most recent comments and posts
#due to the way the search works on blogger.
#It saves  xml files for easy import into other things, but no
#style info.
#Also, pictures posted are not saved.  To do a decent job of saving pictures,
#one would probably need to log onto picasa.
#Ideally, a better solution to all this is to use the blogger and picasa
#APIs that Google provides.  But for the moment, this will have to do.

import urllib
import datetime
import sys

#

def get_blog(name):
    stamp=str(datetime.date.today())
    savepost=name+"-posts-"+stamp+".xml"
    savecomment=name+"-comments-"+stamp+".xml"

    postxmlurl="http://"+name+".blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=1000"
    commentxmlurl="http://"+name+".blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?max-results=1000"
    urllib.urlretrieve(postxmlurl,savepost)
    urllib.urlcleanup()
    urllib.urlretrieve(commentxmlurl,savecomment)
    urllib.urlcleanup()
    print "Retrieved "+postxmlurl+" and "+commentxmlurl+" on "+stamp

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if(len(sys.argv)<=1):
        print "Error, must give blog name on command line!"
        sys.exit()
    name=sys.argv[1]
    get_blog(name)