I played around with Radio's xml-rpc interface (MetaWeblog API) via applescript for the first time today.

It worked pretty well, although it took me a while to work out what I was doing. I will post some example code in the next few days which may help others to get to grips with it a bit more easily.

I did run into one problem which I couldn't overcome. The metaWeblog.getCategories call returns a struct of structs. Applescript conveniently translates structs into records which is usually very convenient. However, in this case I really was looking for the category names. These become the labels in the applescript record as in:

{category1Name:{description:"a weblog",...}, category2Name:{...}}

Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to access the labels of a record in applescript, so I can't retrieve the category names. I had to revert to a standard applescript "Do Script" to get the category names. Which may make my code example even more useful to some - but is not really what I wanted to do.