markdown-to-medium

Publish markdown to Medium. Extracted from @jxnblk's script (thank him if you see him).

Getting Started

1. Get a third party integration token on medium
2. Install markdown-to-medium
3. Copy the token to the clipboard
4. Create an article with the token passed through --token
5. The token is now stored locally for future use, rinse repeat

Usage

Usage: markdown-to-medium <path to markdown>

Options:
  -h, --help        Output usage information
  -v, --version     Output version number
  -t, --token       Pass in the user token, stored after first use
  -i, --id          Pass in the user id
  -u, --canonicalUrl  Add a cross-reference to the original url for post
  -l, --license     Pass in the license
  --title           Pass in the title
  --tags            Pass in tags
  --publication     Publish to a Medium publication

Examples:
  $ markdown-to-medium ./foobar.md
  # Publish markdown to medium

  $ markdown-to-medium ./foobar.md  --tags="tag1,tag2" --title="Hello world"
  # Publish markdown to medium

Docs: https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/markdown-to-medium
Bugs: https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/markdown-to-medium/issues

License

You can specify a license for your draft. It must be one of these options: all-rights-reserved, cc-40-by, cc-40-by-nd, cc-40-by-sa, cc-40-by-nc, cc-40-by-nc-nd, cc-40-by-nc-sa, cc-40-zero, public-domain.

Metadata

To get the correct title and date to show up without using options, you can use YAML frontmatter in your markdown:

---
title: 'How to light a tire fire'
created: '6-20-2016'
publication: 'Intention and Integrity'
canonicalUrl: 'https://example.com/how-to-light-a-tire-fire'
tags: ['fire', 'tires']
license: 'public-domain'
---

Now put some of the best words here.
You can do it, you're witty and smart and charming and

Note that created is not passed through to Medium.

If there is no YAML frontmatter, you can also specify the title using a first level markdown header, such as # Title, on the first line of the file.

Installation

$ npm install --global markdown-to-medium

See Also

• medium api docs
• jxnblk/writing

License

MIT