01 April 2018

Trial post using open live writer offline

 

This is an experiment to test whether Open Live Writer can breach Blogger’s OAuth2.0 which trounces most other offline blog writers.

 

Sarcastic smile

03 August 2017

Can Google Docs be used to draft Blogger blog posts?


Google Docs → Blogger post
Testing a hypothesis
With the rigid implementation of 'OAuth2.0' authentication security protocol, Google basically broke every offline blog posting client that ever supported posting to Blogger blogs!
Here is a list of some of the popular ones from amongst those:
  • Windows Live Writer
  • Post2Blog
  • ScribeFire
  • Qumana
  • MS Word
On the other hand, Wordpress increased the support for offline clients to such an extent that Automattic has released an official add-on to enable Google Docs to directly publish to WP blogs! Talk about trouncing the competition!

So, is Google losing the plot?


Total and Utter Failure❗

  1. Posting this Google doc by e-mail failed!
  2. Embedding this doc failed!

Analysis of both failures

  1. Google Docs can e-mail only as an attachment or as a URL (link) whereas Blogger can only accept posts via e-mail as fully formatted inline!

    Clearly, nobody at Google seems to give a sh*t about Blogger any longer. Hence, it won't even work with Google's own other products.

    So the work around is to import the draft Google doc into the body of the Gmail e-mail. But I am loathe to copy and paste. So I discovered, after tedious research, that there exists an extension for the Chrome browser (which works in any browser based on Chromium - I use Comodo Dragon with it's built-in security hardness) offered by cloudhq.net, which adds a button to your Google Doc menu bar to do the needful.

    The installation of this extension was uneventful for me - not even the browser needed to be restarted. However, I had ensured that I was already logged into the Gmail account which I wished to associate with this extension because it will demand permissions to access, both, your Google Drive which will be the source of your formatted documents; as well as your Gmail account, which is the intended destination. Trusting it is left to your discretion.

    After just reloading the Google Doc page, I had the button become visible - clicking which it worked it's magic and gave me a draft with this exact post in it!

    I, then, emailed this article to the secret e-mail ID which I had pre-configured in my Blogger account setting it to "Draft" for such posts received via e-mail. I opened the draft, checked it for any formatting anomalies and published! SUCCESS!!

  2. Since the solution to the first failure succeeded I didn't struggle with finding a solution to the second failure at this juncture. I may continue later.

02 August 2017

Testing Offline Posting using Open Live Writer

Since Google hopped onto the Oauth 2.0 bandwagon leaving it’s many offline blogster-people high-and-dry, finding the next Offline Blogging Client who can jump through the hoops that Google tosses, has become an ordeal.

 

This post is a part of the ongoing trials towards find a satisfactory solution.

 

Always-remember

18 May 2017

This is a test post from OLW

This is a block of text.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

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