[development] Curl-based content generation

[Steven Jones]

Hi Martin,

The FormAPI generates a security token, I'm not sure if it's something
in the session or returned in the form iteself (the latter I think).
So you'll probably want to visit the page your form is on, grab the
variables and post them back in your submission.


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2009/2/5 Martin Stadler <martin at siarp.de>:
> This cannot be a general approach to add content to an arbitrary Drupal
> site. Your points are valid and if you need that you need to write a module
> providing an API or use SQL directly.
>
> What I'm trying to do is writing a very custom one-time script to add
> content automatically to a certain site. So I can find out about the form
> details once in advance and that should be it. Yes, it may depend on what
> modules you have enabled and form details may change even in minor Drupal
> versions (security fixes i.e.). I'm aware of that and I'd adjust my script
> accordingly in that case.
>
> I just want to know what I need to send to add content to the default page
> content type with no modifications for the latest stable Drupal 6 release.
>
> Martin
>
>
> Am 05.02.2009 um 14:03 schrieb M. Fioretti:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 13:46:07 PM +0100, Martin Stadler wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm working on a small curl-based script to add content to a drupal-6
>>> site. Logging-in (getting cookie etc) works fine but when I try to add
>>> content I get a validation error. I guess it's about security. Is it at
>>> all possible to do what I'm trying?
>>
>> Martin,
>>
>> possible, it's possible. I *had* made something like this work with
>> Drupal 4.x. Then I abandoned that project but asked here about the
>> best way to resurrect it just one month ago (the "Info needed to add
>> content to Drupal via shell/curl script"). Due to more urgent tasks I
>> have had to abandon that project again for the moment, but I'm still
>> very interested, so please keep me posted even off list if you
>> succeed, please. This said,
>>
>>> Is there documention how these form tokens actually work and what is
>>> required? I couldn't find that in the formAPI docs.
>>
>> this is the same problem I had, IIRC. The basic flow is simple,
>> conceptually. The problem is:
>>
>> 1) how does one know in advance what is the exact sequence of pages to
>>  visit, that is of Urls to pass to curl?
>>
>> 2) how does one know **in advance**, without going by trial and error,
>>  what are all the fields one should pass to curl each time, via -F?
>>
>> 3) how can one know **in advance** the list of admissible values for
>>  each field of each form (especially taxonomy terms??)?
>>
>> 4) can we be confident minor upgrades won't break the script, that is
>>  that the answers above won't change going from 6.x to 6.x+1?
>>
>> 5) Am I missing something else here?
>>
>> As a wild, really wild guess, I **believe** that this problem you have:
>>
>>> # -> does not work: response2.html says 'Validation error, please try
>>> again. If this error persists, please contact the site administrator.'
>>
>> may be due to point 1 above, that is you didn't call all the pages
>> Drupal wants you to visit, in the right order.
>>
>> One part of the problem is that answers to questions 2 and 3 are
>> different for each site, that is they depend on which modules and node
>> types you have active, how many categories there are and how many
>> values they have, if you can upload attachments or not, etc... For me,
>> what would be great would be to have some simple method to know these
>> information via mysql. In other words, what is/are the mysql query(es)
>> on the server that would return a lists of all the parameters asked by
>> questions 2 and 3 above?
>>
>> So, I have no specific answers, but I hope that this post helps us to
>> get them from the developers.
>>
>> HTH,
>>                Marco
>> --
>> Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how
>> software is used *around* you:            http://digifreedom.net/node/84
>>
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