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Basic blot blogging from the command-line

Posting to my blog is a breeze from mobile thanks to a couple shortcuts and Drafts actions I’ve put together. I wanted posting to be just as seemless from my computer, too. Here is my quick and dirty solution!

#!/usr/bin/env bash

cd "$(dirname "$0")" # Go to the script's directory

DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M)

# The paths to your blot website's draft and post directories
DRAFT_DIR=/Users/someuser/Dropbox/Apps/Blot/drafts/
POST_DIR=/Users/someuser/Dropbox/Apps/Blot/posts/

USER_INPUT="$@"

# Your editor of choice
EDITOR='emacs'

if [ -n "$USER_INPUT" ]; then

    if [ $USER_INPUT == "post" ]; then

        printf "title: \ndate: ${DATE}\ntags: " > ${POST_DIR}${DATE}.md
        $EDITOR ${POST_DIR}$DATE.md

    fi

    if [ $USER_INPUT == "draft" ]; then

        printf "title: \ndate: ${DATE}\ntags: " > ${DRAFT_DIR}${DATE}.md
        $EDITOR ${DRAFT_DIR}$DATE.md

    fi

else 

    printf '\nBlot blogging from the command-line.\n\n    draft   create a draft post\n    post    live dangerously and just post that sucker!\n\n'

fi

In the future I may expand this to support editing existing posts, too. I’ve also been toying with a way to do this without ever leaving emacs.

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