Any way to get post Title, URL, etc. from within a plugin?

Ye, that's exactly what I mean. I assumed we were not able to get such information since the API does not have anything of the sort, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

How about the Post Title? Does anyone know the id or name WLW uses to represent the div that holds the Post Title? If I know that I can at least get the title.

I already have code that allows me to get the HTML from the WLW editor. Therefore, I am able to easily extract the post tile by using the following regular expression pattern.

@"<div[\s]+class=postTitle.*?>(?<postTitle>.*?)</div>"

I then do a match against the post's HTML and voila!

It is true that the HTML is not accessible through the SDK and therefore through a plugin. However, I managed to compile some code to get access to the HTML and replace it. The trick takes advantage of the fact that WLW uses a browser component for its editor and that can be retrieved using the Win32 APIs. From there you can get the full contents or the selected contents to manipulate.

I have isolated the code in an assembly. If you use my Code Snippet plugin for Windows Live Writer or my Digg This plugin for Windows Live Writer, you will get an assembly called WLWPluginBase.dll in your plugin folder. All my plugins use that same assembly. This is where all that code is isolated. You can add a reference in your own plugin and use code similar to the following to get the HTML code or just the plain text.

I am planning on releasing the code at some point once I get a chance to complete another plugin I am working on. However, there's just not enough time in the day... For now, this is an alternative.

Thanks for the feedback. The WLW Team does not know of the assembly but at least one of the members knows about me using some of these techniques for my Digg This plugin. I use it to prepopulate content in the plugin from text in the post. I do know that the title has changed method in the new version since they mentioned it as a defect when they were testing the Digg This plugin. So, I will have to change my logic at some point. Again, since this is a hack it is understandable that it is not supported, but it is all part of the game...