I created a plugin for @withknown for posting recipes. https://
Combine the whiskey, lemon juice, lime juice, orange juice and syrup. Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice and pour in the drink mix 2/3 full....
Tantek Çelik writes a great post on the A to Z of the IndieWeb. Great primer!
You’re probably sick of my posts about Micropub by this point, so I’ll make this my last for a while. Maybe.
I’m up in Seattle this week on business, and the airplane ride from Los Angeles gave me a chance to play around a bit more with Micropub. I whipped up a quick script that allows for quickly publishing Markdown-formatted content to a Micropub endpoint.
This very post is published with the script! Micropub inception! Take a look:
#!/usr/bin/env python ''' A script for quickly publishing blog posts to a Micropub endpoint. To use this script, first ensure that you have installed: PyYAML requests markdown You will also need to set the following environment variables: INDIEAUTH_TOKEN MICROPUB_ENDPOINT Run the script, and pass it the path to a Markdown-formatted file. YAML formatted front matter can be provided with Micropub arguments such as `name`, `published`, and `slug`. ''' import sys, os, yaml import requests, markdown # configuration data = {} token = os.environ.get('INDIEAUTH_TOKEN') endpoint = os.environ.get('MICROPUB_ENDPOINT') # make sure the user has provided adequate information if not token or not endpoint: print 'INDIEAUTH_TOKEN & MICROPUB_ENDPOINT environment variables not set.' sys.exit(0) if len(sys.argv) < 2: print 'Usage:' print ' blogit <path to markdown file>' sys.exit(0) # read in the content filename = sys.argv[1] raw_content = open(filename, 'rb').read() # check for front matter if raw_content.startswith('---'): # parse out the front matter from the raw content _, front_matter, raw_content = raw_content.split('---', 2) # parse the frontmatter data = yaml.load(front_matter) # render markdown data['content'] = markdown.markdown(raw_content, extensions=[ 'markdown.extensions.codehilite', 'markdown.extensions.extra', 'markdown.extensions.smarty' ]) # populate remaining details data['access_token'] = token if 'h' not in data: data['h'] = 'entry' # create the post result = requests.post(endpoint, data=data) # check the result if result.status_code not in (200, 201): print 'Failed to publish post with status code: %d' % result.status_code sys.exit(1) print 'Published successfully.'
You’ll note that it supports some Markdown extras, including code highlighting with Pygments, and several other extras.
Feedback is, of course, welcome. On my flight home, I plan on polishing the script up a bit, making it easy to install, and adding a few options.
Will they go the Tesla Motors route, and use age-old technology and materials, but complement them with innovative software? I sort of hope not. I'd prefer to see them take the BMW route, and use innovative materials and processes, along with great software. Only, you know, not make their cars as hideous as the BMW i3, which is by all accounts, one of the ugliest vehicles ever created.
Exciting times in motoring.
Update (August 21, 2:15 PM PT): The plot thickens!