posting to drupal using a external blogging software

By noaim on 29 Sep 2008 at 04:54 UTC

ok so ive made some discoveries and still am having a problem
Basically trying ecto and trying Iblogger the one feature thats pretty important doesn't work Thats including a image on your post.

What I have done

On my main site I enabled blog api and gave permissions to each available function -- Blog - Story etc etc

The basic posting of content works but you cannot include a image
The error I receive on ecto is ------ It is not possible to upload the file because it exceeded the maximum filesize 0 bytes.

Because I have multiple modules active I tried another option
created a clean install with nothing configured

Made blog api active and check what could be used
set the account up in the blogging software still the same error when adding a image.

there has got to be something missing

I have read about movable type api and that it needs to be selected however I do not see this api anywere in the installation or under the blog api configuration

any help or thoughts?

Comments

update: Under a test

noaim commented 29 September 2008 at 05:24

update: Under a test account not a admin account typical authenticated user. It does not error out it posts the blog or story but when the story hits the site the image is not there its stripped.....

and in the blogging applications it shows the image as being in the post...

I was having the same

webluke commented 1 October 2008 at 23:49

I was having the same problem with uploading files/images with the blog-api. I looked around a lot and tried a few things the the only thing that has been working is to allow the use of the blog-api to authenticated users, but as the the first user / main admin should be able to use this without allowing all users to use the api.

Here is the link to the site I found the info on: http://www.bluemangolearning.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=749#p749

Hope this helps :)

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Same story with MarsEdit - perms problem

sam moore

he/him

Sandy Hook, CT

commented 30 December 2008 at 19:24

Thanks guys, you just saved me several hours.
I was having the same problem using MarsEdit to post as user #1, and had forgotten about setting perms on Blog API.
For some reason, you have to explicitly allow authenticated users to use Blog API, even if you're posting as user #1.

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I had the same issue....

hebbar10 commented 25 April 2013 at 09:03

Thanks, this solution worked for me .

Same her but solution doesn't fix it.

falkd commented 18 January 2009 at 18:31

I still have the "exceeded the maximum filesize of 0 Bytes." and as long it persists, drupal is not any useful to me.

thanks!

parrottvision commented 23 January 2009 at 00:30

I am using ecto on drupal 6.9 and this fixed worked for me. Thanks!!

Also check you files uploads limits are OK and your blog upload api file limits are ok.

Not solved yet

aamato commented 24 February 2010 at 01:11

It is still not working for me. I am using drupal 6.15
I have done all that is described here, and I still got the following message

It is not possible to upload the file, because it exceeded the maximum filesize of 0 bytes.

When uploading torcicolo-dor-pescoco-cervicalgia-thumb.jpg.

Please contact the site's administrator for more assistance.

Any suggestions ??
Thanks a lot !

blog posting software

smke9 commented 10 April 2010 at 13:50

I thought all you needed was your api key and most blog posting software like windows live writer and firepow would post with no problem. You should try those desktop blogging softwares.