Title: Posterous plugin uses deprecated API?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Posterous plugin uses deprecated API?

 *  [vitasthefetus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitasthefetus/)
 * (@vitasthefetus)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posterous-plugin-uses-deprecated-api/)
 * I am wondering if someone can provide me with a definitive answer on the status
   of the wordpress.org posterous importer. After I got stuck on the spinner, I 
   spent a few hours debugging this weekend and discovered that v0.10 of the plugin
   is calling [http://posterous.com/api/getsites](http://posterous.com/api/getsites),
   which as far as I can tell is a defunct call to the old version of Posterous’s
   API. Consequently, Posterous returns a 500 error, and the plugin hangs (it doesn’t
   have a 500 response handler). So this would seem to be the end of the story –
   the plugin is irreparably broken without significant modifications, but I can’t
   find any definitive proof that the /api/getsites call is actually official defunct,
   so I can’t be certain that all hope is lost. If someone could provide the answer,
   I’d be very grateful.
 * The solution that [@dllh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dllh/) posted is
   good, but not great, because the wordpress.com plugin doesn’t import full-size
   images.
 * Thanks
    Jacob

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 *  [Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dllh/)
 * (@dllh)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posterous-plugin-uses-deprecated-api/#post-3551970)
 * The production version of the importer uses the old API. There’s a [dev branch of the plugin](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/posterous-importer/branches/v2api/posterous.php)
   referenced in a few posts here that may work somewhat better, but in general,
   you should consider both APIs essentially deprecated with the service going away
   in a couple of months. To be safe, go through the export steps Posterous recommends.
   If you can get the API to work, consider it a bonus. The first priority should
   be downloading the backup file Posterous provides, as it’ll be the only surefire
   way to make sure you have all of your media files in particular.
 *  Thread Starter [vitasthefetus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitasthefetus/)
 * (@vitasthefetus)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posterous-plugin-uses-deprecated-api/#post-3551993)
 * Thanks – the dev version worked (although it was hard to find – the svn and development
   link on the plugin website linked to v0.10) but all of the media link back to
   posterous.com. Is there a plan to address this? Do you want help?
 *  [Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dllh/)
 * (@dllh)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posterous-plugin-uses-deprecated-api/#post-3552051)
 * In all the testing I had done when I built the dev plugin, media files were imported
   and had their links updated. I wonder if something has changed. Patches are most
   definitely welcome. 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [vitasthefetus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitasthefetus/)
 * (@vitasthefetus)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posterous-plugin-uses-deprecated-api/#post-3552170)
 * Hmm. Interestingly, it looks like the links start as posterous links but then
   eventually convert themselves to local links. I guess the script runs in “stealth
   mode” after it appears to be complete. The one thing that doesn’t look like it’s
   going to fix itself are the videos – those seem to be permalinked to the posterous
   site. Is that intentional?
 * Also, any thoughts on why some of the images might be distorted (aspect ratio
   is wrong and they’re highly compressed) in the “thumbnail” view on the main page?
   See examples here: [http://therachels.us/splog](http://therachels.us/splog).
 * Thanks
    Jacob

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 * Last reply from: [vitasthefetus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vitasthefetus/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posterous-plugin-uses-deprecated-api/#post-3552170)
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