The publisher bot is taking shape

A few days ago, I blogged about that publisher bot idea. Guess what ? It’s ready

What can the Publisher bot do?

• Sync local clone to remote git repo (the blog)

• Create temp directories and zero temp files

• Checks if we have already published an article for today

• Looks for unpublished drafts

• Identifies a draft to publish at random

• Adds some formatting to the draft

• Publishes the draft and syncs to remote repo (blog)

What the Publisher can’t do?

• Publish to Linkedin and Twitter (Work in progress)

How to use it ?

• If you already have a blog that uses jekyll-now it works out of the box

• Copy the script after downloading to a directory (say /tmp)

  cp -p ~/Downloads/publisher_bot_v7.sh /tmp/
  

• Modify those lines as per your requirements in the script

  #User modifiable
  github_blog_reponame=codarrenvelvindron.github.io #your blog repo name = locally cloned
  start_date='2020-12-31' #this is the date you started blogging, it serves as a Day counter
  

• Clone remote repository (your jekyll blog) in the same folder (/tmp/) as the script

  cd /tmp/
  git clone [[email protected]:codarrenvelvindron/codarrenvelvindron.github.io.git]
  

• Create your new drafts on your remote repository

  #Naming convention should follow this:
  #Words in title separated by underscores
  #e.g. Making_your_own_publisher_bot.md
  #edit the file with something like prose.io (this is what i use)
  

• After draft is done, run the script

  chmod +x publisher_bot_v7.sh
  ./publisher_bot_v7.sh
  

Code

Credits

• Robot image