markdown2medium

Inspired by cjoudrey/md2medium, I want a simple way to re-publish in Medium some Markdown posts written for Hugo. This tool uploads a single post to Medium.

Prerequisites

An Integration Token from Medium. Go to Settings, then Integration tokens.

Type something mnemonic, like markdown2medium and click on Get integration token.

The integration token is now available until you explicitly revoke it.

Download

For Linux

$ver = '0.1.1'
curl -L https://github.com/kpango/markdown2medium/releases/download/v${ver}/markdown2medium-${ver}-linux-x64 -o markdown2medium
chmod +x markdown2medium
./markdown2medium -h

For Windows

$ver = '0.1.1'
Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/kpango/markdown2medium/releases/download/v${ver}/markdown2medium-${ver}-win-x64.exe -OutFile markdown2medium.exe
./markdown2medium -h

Usage

The options should be self-explanatory. Use markdown2medium -h to get the list of possible options.

At a minimum, you have to pass --mediumIntegrationToken (Medium authentication) and --markdownFile (the post to upload). By default, the post is published as draft; the --publishStatus option allows for a public or an unlisted post.

--canonicalURL sets the URL of original post and --originalNote appends some Markdown at the post, typically to link back to the original post. The --originalNote option accepts Go Templates and can use these properties:

Property	Description
BaseURL	scheme and hostname of canonical URL
CanonicalURL	Post canonical URL as defined by --canonicalURL option
Title	Post title extracted from Front Matter
Date	Post date extracted from Front Matter

Use --dryRun to check that the input file is correct and --debug to dump the exact HTML that will be uploaded to Medium.

Sample usage

markdown2medium                                                                                                     \
    --mediumIntegrationToken 1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef123457890abcdef123456789abcdef1234                     \
    --markdownFile C:/myblog/content/post/2019/pyp/1-hosts/index.md                                                 \
    --canonicalURL http://blog.casavian.eu/2019/08/23/meta-pipelines-part-1-docker-hosts/                           \
    --publishStatus draft                                                                                           \
    --originalNote 'Originally posted at [{{ .BaseURL }}]({{ .CanonicalURL }}) on {{ .Date.Format \"2 Jan 2006\" }}'