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Posting Using Desktop Clients

It is possible to post content to Groupy using desktop clients like Scribefire, BloGTK, Adobe Contribute, w.bloggar, or any other program that supports the metaWeblog API. Currently, I recommend Scribefire which allows excellent drag and drop between what you are reading in Firefox and what you are writing.

To set up a blogging client, point it to http://yourdomain.com/groupy_dir/?page=XMLRPC and configure the client to use the MetaWeblog API or (if available) Wordpress API. From there, you may write a post, edit existing posts, and delete posts. Other content types are not supported. Groupy currently does not support the newMediaObject, uploadFile, and suggestCategory methods nor is every attribute populated exactly as specified in the MetaWeblog, MovableType, and Wordpress APIs. Groupy's XMLRPC interface is simply "good enough" to get the blog writing clients I tested working.

Import and Export

Groupy provides an XML dump file that saves the current state and comments for every piece of content in Groupy.

In addition to this format you can import from Wordpress using their extended RSS format. Simply upload the XML file and new content will be created. No attempt will be made to merge with existing content. Content will be saved as a draft.