blogpub

Github action to publish your blog articles to Medium or Dev.to using their respective REST APIs. The action searches for markdown files in the commit of the push event and uses first md file that finds.

Updating articles

Currently it's not supported to update the articles on the different platforms. If the markdown file found in the push event already exists on the commit before, the action will skip it. This avoids publishing the article again.

Pre-requisites

In order to interact with both platforms API's you will need:

Medium integration token
Dev.to API Key
Github access token with reading permissions

Usage

The action will grab an markdown file from a push event to a branch. The following workflow configuration will publish articles that are committed to the main branch:

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - 'main'
    paths:
      - 'articles/*'

Note: we only want to trigger this action when files are added to the articles folder.

You can define your job as follows:

jobs:
  publish:
    name: publish new article
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest    
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: blogpub
        uses: protiumx/blogpub@v0.6.0
        with:
          devto_api_key: ${{ secrets.DEVTO_API_KEY }}
          gh_token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
          medium_token: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_TOKEN }}
          medium_user_id: 1f3b633f149233c057af77f0016a9421fa520b9a59f97f5bd07201c2ca2a4a6bc

Check my personal blog source as example of usage

Inputs

gh_token: Github token. Required
articles_folder: Folder to look for new articles. Default: blogs
medium_token: Your Medium integration token. Required
medium_base_url: Medium base URL to post articles. Default: https://api.medium.com/v1
medium_user_id: Your Medium user ID. Required. See medium api docs
devto_api_key: Your Dev.to API Key. Required

Example:

---
title: New Article
description: Some description
tags: test, ci
license: public-domain
---
# This is my new Article

In this article we will learn how to setup with `blogpub`

## Relative paths from the repository

![ci-meme.jpg](./assets/meme.jpg)

## Requirements

...

Outputs

medium_url: URL of the published article to Medium
devto_url: URL of the published article to Dev.to

Articles configuration

blogpub will search for metadata surrounded by section markers ---. The metadata should be a yml section.

The following arguments can be set:

title: [string] The title of the article. If not specified, the first H1 heading will be used.
description: [string] Description for dev.to API.
tags: [string | string[]] Comma separated tags or yaml list. Note: Medium allows up to 5 tags whereas Dev.to only 4.
license: [string] Medium license type. Refer to Medium API Docs. Default: public-domain
published: [boolean]. Default: true
canonicalUrl: [string] The canonical URL of the post (supported in both Medium and Dev.to)

Template Support

blogpub supports handlebars templates. It provides the following context

{
  medium: boolean;
  devto: boolean;
}

Usage:

{{#if medium}}
This is only for Medium
{{/if}}

Relative Paths

You can use relative paths to use any media files hosted in the same repository as the article files. All relative paths will be resolved using the github raw content URL.

Example:

![image](./img1.png)
<img src="../assets/img2.jpg" />

Will be parsed as

![image](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<owner>/<repo>/<articles_folder>/img1.png)
<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<owner>/<repo>/assets/img2.jpg" />

Developing

Run tests

yarn test

Run build

yarn build

Testing action locally

If you want to test the action locally you could clone blogpub-test and use act to run the action.

Contributing

Please submit a PR with any contribution. Refer to the list of TODO's or open issues.

TODO

Relative paths to github raw server
Remove axios in favor of node's https
Sanitize inputs
Support publishing to only 1 platform
Support edition and auto update of articles
Support multiple articles per job run

protiumx / blogpub