[support] I can't believe you can't add content from the command line...

[dondi_2006]

Hello,

Some days ago I had asked on this list how to add content in
Drupal from the mysql command line.
I only got one suggestion to try the import_HTML module (http://drupal.org/node/46008) but it really seems an overkill,
and not the best approach to what I have to do.

I had also asked how to do the same thing in two different ways in
the forums:
http://drupal.org/node/62954
http://drupal.org/node/68605

without result so far: no feedback from others who posted, who I contacted directly, no usable documentation I could recognize, nothing...

Honestly, I can't believe this has never been done before: What
I need to do is something that (OUTSIDE Drupal) reads a .txt file like this:

ARTICLE_CATEGORIES="travel/england/london,  food/foreign/restaurants"
TEXT="path/to/some/local/html/file/"
CREATED_ON_DATE="YYYY/MM/DD"
AUTHOR="John Doe"

etc etc.... (other variables like, for example, "create_a_forum_for_this_node")

and upload the node inside the Drupal database, just if I had inserted everything by hand in the proper drupal form.

I don't want to do it via drupal because I need this to happen regularly  and automatically (say, a cron job on my home PC which publishes via ssh whatever file in $DRUPAL_CONTENT folder changed in the last hour): it's not a one-time job.

I've also tried to look for scripts doing this via the blogger API
(or usable documentation on how to write them so they _are_ drupal compatible): nothing.

What am I missing? Is it really possible that everybody is happy
pasting and changing stuff manually in a tiny textarea, EVERY
darned time some node must be added or updated??

Thanks,

O.