API to publish articles on Joomla and Drupal - ruby-on-rails

Question

Do Joomla and Drupal provide any kind of APIs to publish articles?
I have Ruby on Rails application for content authoring and need to publish articles to different sites which are runs on Joomla and Drupal.

Answer 1

It can be done via for example a CLI script running on a Joomla site using the articles Model.
One suggestion would be to publish an RSS or XML feed that you can then import periodically via a Joomla CLI script. An example CLI script is given below. Points to note:
In the below example data is imported from a CSV file you would have to modify this for whatever your data source is.
The catid is hardcoded - you may wish to post your articles to different categories in which case you would need to do more work to potentially look up category IDs.
It doesn't include tags etc
Is only a solution for Joomla not Drupal
I could go on but this is a Q&A site not a consultancy opportunity...;-)
<?php
/**
* #package Joomla.Cli
*
* #copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2015 Open Source Matters, Inc. All rights reserved.
* #license GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
*/
// Initialize Joomla framework
const _JEXEC = 1;
// Load system defines
if (file_exists(dirname(__DIR__) . '/defines.php'))
{
require_once dirname(__DIR__) . '/defines.php';
}
if (!defined('_JDEFINES'))
{
define('JPATH_BASE', dirname(__DIR__));
require_once JPATH_BASE . '/includes/defines.php';
}
// Get the framework.
require_once JPATH_LIBRARIES . '/import.legacy.php';
// Bootstrap the CMS libraries.
require_once JPATH_LIBRARIES . '/cms.php';
/**
* Cron job to import data into articles
*
* #since 2.5
*/
class ImportArticlesCron extends JApplicationCli
{
/**
* Entry point for the script
*
* #return void
*
* #since 2.5
*/
public function doExecute()
{
// Import articles model
JControllerForm::addModelPath(JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR . '/components/com_content/models');
// Get an instance of the content model
$model = $this->getModel('Article', 'ContentModel');
// This example is using a csv file but there's no reason you couldn't import an XML file here
while (($line = fgetcsv($handle, 0, $delimiter = '|')) !== FALSE)
{
$data = array();
$data['introtext'] = '';
$data['fulltext'] = $output;
$data['id'] = '';
$data['state'] = ($line[1] == 'True') ? 1 : 0;
$data['title'] = iconv("ISO-8859-1", "UTF-8//TRANSLIT", $line[3]);
$data['created'] = $line[2];
$data['catid'] = 38;
$data['language'] = 'en-GB';
$data['metadesc'] = '';
$data['metakey'] = '';
//$data['publish_up'] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($line[14]));
//$data['publish_down'] = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($line[15]));
$model = $this->getModel('Article', 'ContentModel');
if (!$model->save($data))
{
$error = $model->getError();
}
}
}
}
JApplicationCli::getInstance('ImportArticlesCron')->execute();
?>

Answer 2

The answer to the question for Joomla is no, there's no web API to publish articles from remote.
I never had to implement such a solution so I don't have a proven answer.
Being a developer, my first thought would be to build a custom API component.
Maybe, before that, I would look into the JED to see if someone already did it.