A Post Queue for Publishing at Posterous

A Django Project to Queue Posts for Publishing at Posterous.

Getting Started

1. grab the code

    git clone http://github.com/andrewwatts/posterousq.git
    cd posterousq
   

2. Create a virtualenv (with virtualenvwrapper)

    mkvirtualenv posterousq
    workon posterousq
    easy_install pip
   

3. Install dependencies

    pip install -r requirements/requirements.txt
   

4. Configure your settings, an example settings.py is included in settings.py.sample, copy it to settings.py before editing:

    cd posterousq
    cp settings.py.sample settings.py
   

   At a minimum you'll need to define your posterous username (email address) and password, and if you have more than one site, and do not want your posts going to your default site, the site id.

    POSTEROUS_USERNAME = '[email protected]'
    POSTEROUS_PASSWORD = 'yourpassword'
    POSTEROUS_SITE_ID = 'optional_site_id'
   

   and modify your database settings appropriately for your database configuration

    DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqllite3'
    DATABASE_NAME = 'posterousq.db'             
    DATABASE_USER = ''             
    DATABASE_PASSWORD = ''         
    DATABASE_HOST = ''             
    DATABASE_PORT = ''   
   

5. Install and/or sync your database

    cd ..
    ./manage.py syncdb
   

6. Run the celeryd workers, scheduler and server in your environment, for development these commands can be used.

    ./manage.py celeryd -B
    ./manage.py runserver
   

   For more formal deployment options, you're on your own, but there are plenty of howto's in the celery cookbook and django docs. And remember you could be dealing with some large files, so you'll need to configure the webserver properly to handle large file uploads.