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Mon Sep 01 08:59:00 CDT 2008

From the tutorial, I've pieced together a script for Ubiquity that starts an lj entry with the selected text. I'm sure it could be improved upon easily. I experimented with posting to lj directly by filling out the form values. While this could be done, I noticed that lj is putting some security entries in the form, so, maybe not such a good idea? Chances are I'll want to edit the post, anyway.

CmdUtils.CreateCommand({ name: "lj", takes: {status: nounarbtext}, homepage: "http://skelter.net/moz/ubiquity/verbs/", author: {name: "Steve Suehs", homepage: "http://skelter.net/"}, license: "undecided",

preview: function(previewBlock, draftText) { var previewTemplate = "Post to lj: <br/>" +
"<b>${status}</b>"; var previewData = { status: draftText.text };

var previewHTML = CmdUtils.renderTemplate(previewTemplate,
                                                previewData);

previewBlock.innerHTML = previewHTML;

},

execute: function(blogText) { if(blogText.text.length < 1) { displayMessage("LJ needs some text to post"); return; }

var updateUrl = "http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml";
var updateParams = {
  source: "ubiquity",
  subject: "ubiquity test",
  event: blogText.text,
  formsubmit: "Post to xxxxx"
};


jQuery.post(updateUrl,updateParams,
  function(data,status) {
    var msg = "returned " + status + " - " + data;
    CmdUtils.log(msg);
    toJavaScriptConsole();
    displayMessage(msg);
  }
);

Utils.openUrlInBrowser(updateUrl+"?subject=Ubiquity&event="+encodeURIComponent(blogText.text));

} });