WordPress Markdown Package for BBEdit

A set of scripts, text filters, and clippings for writing and posting WordPress blog entries in Markdown from within BBEdit.

Resources

These are a set of helper scripts that are called by the user-facing scripts, text filters, and clippings.

bbstdin (Shell script)
A utility script that converts BBEdit text into stdin for piping to other scripts.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirement: None.
• Needs editing: No.

get-post (Python script)
Retrieve the header and text of the specified blog post and return it in stdout.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirement: You must have a Keychain entry with a name set to the URL of the blog's xmlrpc.php file, an account set to the blog's username, and a password set to the blog's password.
• Non-standard libraries: pytz, keyring
• Needs editing: The url and user variables must be personalized to the blog's xmlrpc.php URL and username. The myTZ variable must be set to the blog's time zone.

recent-posts (Python script)
Return a list of recent posts with post number and title for each.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirement: You must have a Keychain entry with a name set to the URL of the blog's xmlrpc.php file, an account set to the blog's username, and a password set to the blog's password.
• Non-standard libraries: keyring
• Needs editing: The url and user variables must be personalized to the blog's xmlrpc.php URL and username.

nextreflink (Python script)
Scan text for numbered Markdown reference-style links and return the next one in the series.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirement: None.
• Non-standard libraries: None.
• Needs editing: No.

getreflink (Python script)
Scan text for Markdown reference-style links, display them in a dialog box, and return the one chosen by the user.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirement: The CocoaDialog application.
• Non-standard libraries: None.
• Needs editing: No.

glucky (Ruby script)
Return URL of Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" link for the given text.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirement: None.
• Non-standard libraries: None.
• Needs editing: No.

prepend-language (Perl script)
Determine a script's language from its shebang line (if present) and return the script with that language prepended to it.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirement: None.
• Non-standard libraries: None.
• Needs editing: No.

flickroriginal (Python script)
Return an <img> link to the Original image file shown on the Flickr page in the frontmost Safari tab.

• Fuller description: The library is described in this post.
• External requirement: None.
• Non-standard libraries: currentflickr.
• Needs editing: No, but Flickr API credentials the currentflickr library it's based on will need to be changed.

flickr640 (Python script)
Return an <img> link to the Medium 640 image file shown on the Flickr page in the frontmost Safari tab.

• Fuller description: The library is described in this post.
• External requirement: None.
• Non-standard libraries: currentflickr.
• Needs editing: No, but Flickr API credentials the currentflickr library it's based on will need to be changed.

flickr800 (Python script)
Return an <img> link to the Medium 800 image file shown on the Flickr page in the frontmost Safari tab.

• Fuller description: The library is described in this post.
• External requirement: None.
• Non-standard libraries: currentflickr.
• Needs editing: No, but Flickr API credentials the currentflickr library it's based on will need to be changed.

flickr1024 (Python script)
Return an <img> link to the Large image file shown on the Flickr page in the frontmost Safari tab.

• Fuller description: The library is described in this post.
• External requirement: None.
• Non-standard libraries: currentflickr.
• Needs editing: No, but Flickr API credentials the currentflickr library it's based on will need to be changed.

Text Filters

Publish Post.py (Python script)
Takes the current window or selection and publishes it.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirement: You must have a Keychain entry with a name set to the URL of the blog's xmlrpc.php file, an account set to the blog's username, and a password set to the blog's password.
• Non-standard libraries: pytz, keyring
• Needs editing: The url and user variables must be personalized to the blog's xmlrpc.php URL and username. The myTZ variable must be set to the blog's time zone.

Line-Numbered Source Code.textfactory (BBEdit text factory)
Takes the selected lines, numbers the lines, indents it so Markdown will format it as source code, and prepends a language description if there's a #! line.

• Fuller description: The text factory, the JavaScript function for formatting line numbers, and the syntax highlighting JavaScript library.
• External requirement: The JavaScript described above.
• Needs editing: Yes, you'll probably have to reset the Unix filter in the fourth step of the factory to the prepend-language script in the package's Resources folder. The connection to that script often gets broken when I move the package.

Tabs to Markdown Table.pl (Perl script)
Takes a set of lines with tab-separated values and turns it into a MultiMarkdown-style table. Most useful when copying a table from a spreadsheet into a Markdown file.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirement: None.
• Non-standard libraries: None.
• Needs editing: No.

Normalize Table.py (Python script)
Takes a MultiMarkdown-style table with ragged column separators and aligns them. Intended to be used with a non-proportional font.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirements: None.
• Non-standard libraries: None.
• Needs editing: No.

Tidy Markdown Reference Links.py (Python script)
Renumbers and reorders Markdown reference links in a post.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirements: None.
• Non-standard libraries: None.
• Needs editing: No.
• Warning: Doesn't work if the post contains sections of Markdown source code with example reference links.

Scripts

Get Recent Post (AppleScript)
Presents a list of the 15 most recent blog posts. Creates a new window with the selected post. Uses the get-post and recent-posts helper scripts.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirements: Same Keychain entries as the Publish Post text filter and the CocoaDialog application.
• Needs editing: No.

New Reference Link (AppleScript)
Creates a new Markdown reference-style link, defaulting to the URL of the frontmost tab of Safari. Uses the nextreflink helper script.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirements: None.
• Needs editing: No.

Old Reference Link (AppleScript)
Creates a Markdown reference-style link to a URL already in the document. Uses the getreflink helper script.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirements: The CocoaDialog application.
• Needs editing: No.

Google Lucky Link (AppleScript)
Creates a Markdown reference style link to the "I'm Feeling Lucky" hit on the selected text. Uses the glucky helper script.

• Fuller description: This blog post.
• External requirements: None.
• Needs editing: No.

Clippings

These are kept in a Blogging subgroup and are tied to Markdown files.

Post header
Inserts a post template with fill-in spots for the title, keywords, and body.

Post date
Inserts a header line for the publication date. This line is necessary only if you want the article to be published at a time other than when you post it. Its main purpose is to provide an easily edited value in the correct format, which is easy to forget.

Flickr original image
Inserts an <img> link for the Original image file shown on the Flickr page in the frontmost Safari tab. Uses the flickroriginal helper script.

Flickr 640 image
Inserts an <img> link for the Medium 640 image file shown on the Flickr page in the frontmost Safari tab. Uses the flickr640 helper script.

Flickr 800 image
Inserts an <img> link for the Medium 800 image file shown on the Flickr page in the frontmost Safari tab. Uses the flickr800 helper script.

Flickr 1024 image
Inserts an <img> link for the Large image file shown on the Flickr page in the frontmost Safari tab. Uses the flickr1024 helper script.