medium-post-markdown

Github Action for posting a markdown post to medium.com

Inputs

app_id

Required Application id. Create one on the page.

app_secret

Required Application secret.

access_token

Required User's access token. Create one on the page.

markdown_file

Required The markdown file path of the article.

base_url

Base blog's url e.g. https://myblog.com

post_url

Base blog's post url e.g. https://myblog.com/posts. If not specified, base_url is used.

post_status

Post's status. Valid values are draft, public, or unlisted. Default draft.

post_license

Post's license. Valid values are all-rights-reserved, cc-40-by, cc-40-by-sa, cc-40-by-nd, cc-40-by-nc, cc-40-by-nc-nd, cc-40-by-nc-sa, cc-40-zero, public-domain. Default all-rights-reserved.

Outputs

id

ID of the created post.

url

Medium URL of the created post.

Example usage

Post content from static file

Let's assume the post markdown file is located at ./content/post.md.

name: publish-to-medium
on: [push]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Read the post
        id: post
        run: echo "::set-output name=data::$(cat ./content/post.md)"
      - uses: infraway/medium-post-markdown@v1.3.0
        with:
          app_id: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_APP_ID }}
          app_secret: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_APP_SECRET }}
          access_token: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          markdown: ${{ steps.post.outputs.data }}

Post content from newly committed file

This example gets files from commit, find blog posts and publish it to Medium.

• steps.files.outputs.added_modified extracts add+modified files. If you need added only, use steps.files.outputs.added instead.
• content/posts - a repo folder, which contains markdown posts. Replace with your own.
• steps.posts.outputs.post0 - markdown posts path, it will contain as many as you have added post0, post1, post2.

name: publish-to-medium
on: [push]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - id: files
      uses: jitterbit/get-changed-files@v1
      - id: posts
        name: Detecting posts from the changes
        run: |
          i=0
          for changed_file in ${{ steps.files.outputs.added_modified }}; do
            echo "Do something with ${changed_file}."
            if [[ "${changed_file}" == "content/posts"* ]];
            then
              echo "File ${changed_file} matched post."
              echo "::set-output name=post${i}::${changed_file}"
              ((i=i+1))
            fi
          done
      - if: steps.posts.outputs.post0
        name: Publish to medium
        uses: infraway/post-medium-action@v1.3.0
        with:
          app_id: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_APP_ID }}
          app_secret: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_APP_SECRET }}
          access_token: ${{ secrets.MEDIUM_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          markdown_file: ${{ steps.posts.outputs.post0 }}
          base_url: https://myblog.com
          post_url: https://myblog.com/posts