Adding a pelican-newpost script

[TC01]

So, this is something I'd be interested in working on, but I'm not sure exactly what the right way to do it would be:

I maintain two Pelican sites (currently). It didn't dawn on me until now how useful a script that automatically sets stuff like the date and prompts the user for title/category/slug/author/etc would be.

I was imagining something like pelican-quickstart, which prompts the user directly for most arguments. After having the idea, though, a quick search through the repository found a pull request #1085, which added a script called pelican-article that does something very similar, although it takes command line arguments.

The request was rejected for other reasons, and as far as I can tell hasn't been resubmitted by the original author since then? (If I am wrong, please correct me).

As I'm interested in this feature: would it be permissible for me to take @icyleaf's script as a starting point, modify it, and resubmit it under a different name? I mean, I might do things slightly differently, but his script is probably a decent starting point.

[justinmayer]

Hi Ben. Thanks for the thoughtful comments. In light of #800, such a feature would most likely find a warm reception as a submission to the soon-to-be-created pelican-tools repository. (^_^)

[TC01]

Oh, great! I'll hold off on working on this until that happens, then.

[btnpushnmunky]

Did this every happen @TC01 ?

[TC01]

It did not; I was waiting for the pelican-tools repository to get created.

[kylef]

I've created the repository as a first step: https://github.com/getpelican/pelican-tools would really appreciate if someone could contribute a pull request for #800 to get things started.

[leotrs]

@kylef what's the state of this? I could try my hand at a pelican-newpost script for pelican-tools if that was going to be supported, but right now pelican-tools looks abandoned.

[leotrs]

cc @justinmayer ^

I already have a new-post script for my workflow, based on a jinja tamplate here. Would gladly update and PR it. Is the deserted pelican-tools repo ever going to be used?

[justinmayer]

Who would like to volunteer to submit a pull request to the Pelican Tools repository to add this feature?

[luigibertaco]

Hi, @justinmayer I'd like to give it a go.

[justinmayer]

That would be great, Luigi. Let us know if you get stuck on anything! 💫

[georgexyz19]

Hi, @luigibertaco I recently wrote a newpost.py script for my own blog site. I also wrote a short blog post about it. The script only supports markdown and is tailored to my own need. Maybe a start point for your effort.

[luigibertaco]

Hi, @georgexyz19

Thanks for that, I am trying to open the PR today but I'll definitely have a look at your implementation to make it as production-ready as possible.

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[justinmayer]

Closing in favor of getpelican/pelican-tools#6