Improve autopost.R

[matiasandina]

Here we can put a list of things that would be nice to add/check in the autopost script

• [ ] The current strategy with TRUE/FALSE/NA on posted is not awesome.

Maybe we can do a strategy saving a txt file with the last datetime it ran and filtering the

• [ ] If this is scheduled, and nothing new happens, it will likely fail and not exit cleanly. Fix for the cases when there is no new post and hence nothing to update. Print a clear message

[amchagas]

Couple of updates after using it for a little while:

• One person gave a .gif as an image entry, which actually works with the Academic Theme (but it is not documented anywhere). On the main page, it shows a static image, but then when entering the actual post the gif is shown animated. I've added a line to autopost.R that I think solves this.

• Some people entered titles that have : which "breaks the YAML" meaning that the website doesn't deploy anymore both locally and at github. Adding quotation marks around the title solves the issue. didn't change anything here yet

[matiasandina]

The second issue might be more straight-forward to solve if we know the characters that are not allowed. The general idea would be:

not_allowed <- c(":", "/", ...)
sapply(not_allowed, function(tt) str_replace(string=title, pattern="tt", replacement=" "))

We can discuss whether it makes sense to replace with space or what.

If it's really a matter of using quotes and we want to use quotes, the idea would be to use shQuote(title) like this:

shQuote("a night at the opera")
[1] "'a night at the opera'"

This is done for the authors so it might be the way to go for the title too...My only concern is what the special characters do to the urls

[amchagas]

I think maybe just adding quotes is better as it allows people (as far as I understand) to name their project whatever they want and doesn't change the way it looks on the website. the example I mentioned was this one https://open-neuroscience.com/en/post/an_open-source_anthropomorphic_robot_hand_system_hri_hand/ there one can see the quotes do not appear on the rendering, so we are good...

[matiasandina]

Can you try it now using latest commit https://github.com/open-neuroscience/open-neuroscience-website/commit/40a07263fa6c34aa580cda94adc68e09371f8a1e

[amchagas]

this works for the post. just keeps the : on the folder name

[matiasandina]

That's because the folder name gets created by other piece of code here. I was just concerned by spaces at the time.

  # remove all spaces in title
  title <- gsub(x = title , pattern = " ", replacement = "_")
  # make folder on posts if it doesn't exist
  root = "content/en/post"
  if(title %in% list.files(root) == FALSE){
    # make dir
    dir.create(file.path(root, title))
  }

We can switch the first line to

title <- str_replace_all(title, pattern="[[:punct:]]", replacement="_")

That will kill all punctuation

[amchagas]

sounds good!

[matiasandina]

Done here https://github.com/open-neuroscience/open-neuroscience-website/commit/d9b2354f5a61c7a1b4ff2c54fa59f962cb90c3ae Closing this one because it got long. Let's open a new one if more improvements are needed.