Post to Medium via CLI

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..with the new Medium API.

Kind of like plato, where you write in markdown and then have a few CLI commands.

$ medium post

or like

$ medium publish

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$ medium login

..will ask the user for Integration Token (more on self issued access tokens).

and

$ medium publish

Which will take the files from the below directory and post them:

- articles
|   - a-brave-new-prod
|       - index.md
|       - img.png
.

Use frontmatter/yaml in index.md for tags, etc..

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Waiting for response from Medium re: checking for existing posts. Otherwise, the command publish should programmatically (upon success) add some flag to the front matter that indicates whether or not the markdown file has been posted. The publish would also only publish markdown files where published is undefined or not true.

---
published: true
---

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Need to look into how other CLI's store tokens.

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https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/authentication

Heroku stores in ~/.netrc

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Subcommands

create

• creates a new directory with articles folder inside and .medium
• calls medium login also (user can skip)

login

• prompts user for secret token
• saves token in ~/.netrc

publish

• checks for token in ~/.netrc
• gets the token
• if no token, then prompt user to get it and quit
• goes through all index.md files in articles folder
• checks .medium file for ids, removes them
• posts new blog articles to Medium
• success!

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https://www.npmjs.com/package/medium-cli