Quicksilver + Ping.Fm

There's a QS plugin for twitter. Ping.fm shouldn't be much of a stretch from there, should it?

This would be really awesome! I will take a look at the twitter one though. :)

I actually wrote one in the end, it is called SilvePing, and is currently in review by ping.fm.

Ooo cool! Post a link here if it gets through. :D Thanks much!

Well, in theory, it looks good, but I can't get it to work. I've pasted in the key and selected it as an action in quicksilver after typing my message, but nothing happens.

hmmmm, it might be my use of wget.

Could be - I have no wget on my leopard install at least. As far as I can tell - wget would have to be downloaded and compiled or retrieved via fink or similar.

Could the plugin work with curl instead (as far as I can tell - curl is available by default on mac) ?

I tried using curl's --data (send data as post) instead of wget --post-data - but it didn't work. I'll test a bit more later.

Oh - btw - no growl notify either. I managed to do this at the top of the script:

my growlRegister()
set wordcount to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of ping & " | wc -c"
growlNotify(wordcount)

But no growl and no ping in the growl app list.

I was hoping to growl the results of the wget/curl call you see.

Now I really do have to head off to work - so I'll have to leave this until this evening.

I've got wget installed and still can't post to ping.fm using silverping. I did what I (think) was supposed to do - put my API key in [set user_app_key to "that's where I put it"], restarted Quicksilver, hit period, then put the text, hit tab, chose "SilverPing", hit enter and... well, nothing actually happened. Growl notification didn't show up and the message didn't get posted. It's quite sad, as I was extremely happy when I saw that someone managed to write a plugin for Quicksilver.

well, and of course, I believe I put the script in the right place (~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/).

Glad to have more eyes looking at it, it was a quick one-off hack that I wanted. It might be that it is not up for general use yet, as I never got any "approval" message, but it shows up in the app gallery when I look: http://ping.fm/apps/

It shoudl be easy to change around to curl I just haven't done it yet. Any suggestions would be appreciated

This looks interesting.. I'll have to give it a shot. Unfortunately, I've kind of stopped using Quicksilver since it's been out of maintenance for so long. (Yet it feels so much faster than Spotlight.)

Nope, not working. I'm putting my API key inside the quotes after 'set api_key to'. Or is there another place I'm supposed to put it? The readme isn't very clear.

@OctaneZ - have you asked ping.fm about the problem? I'd love to see it working but I believe that SilverPing's posting only with your credentials is a rather major bug (;

Okay, I won't have much time to hack on this until the 5th, unfortunately I wrote it using wget (which is available from MacPorts if you are impatient) for no other reason than I think the flags are easier for wget than curl, and it didn't occur to me that wget isn't a standard OS X package. I will try and update the package to use curl ASAP.

Is anyone with wget installed able to use the script?

I just installed it via fink, and it still refuses to work.

Curl would be great, works every time!

Okay, against better judgment I rewrote the posting portion of silverping to use curl instead of doing my actual work. Check out SilverPing-0.2 at http://www.humansoul.org/silverping/

We thank you for your lack of judgment! It's working perfectly now!

Thanks! It's working now. It's pretty strange it didn't work with wget though - I've got several wget-dependent apps and they seem to work rather fine. But it doesn't matter now. Good luck with your proper work (;