md2med

The aim of this code🎯 is to send a markdown file into Medium. Please note currently this is text-only. The following demo creates test_doc.md with hello there text and sends it to medium with the script.

1. environmental variables

• you need the following 3 envirnomental variables

Name	Comment
md2med_TOKEN	integration token from medium settings
md2med_USERID	user id obtained via API call
md2med_SCRIPT	path to md2med.py
cacert	path to cacert.pem

2. instructions

• open https://medium.com/me/settings -> Integration tokens -> Get integration token
• create an enviroment variable md2med_TOKEN with the value obtained in the step above
• open API Testing Tool and populate as follows:
  • insert https://api.medium.com/v1/me into the address bar
  • insert integration token into Token field, leave the default selection Bearer Token
  • press Send -> obtain the value from id key from the response
• create an environment variable md2med_USERID with the value of id obtained in the step above

• download cacert.pem from curl - Extract CA Certs from Mozilla
• create an environment variable cacert with the value of the path pointing to the cert file
• now you are ready to run the script
• navigate to the folder where you have your markdown file you want to publish
• call md2med.py ideally via environmental variable so that don't have to copy it to the folder with markdown file with the following parameters:
  • --doc_name -> random title
  • --file_to_publish -> file name
  • --tag ->

# no environmental vars
python .\md2med.py --doc_name "hello there!" --file_to_publish "./test_doc.md" --tag "python"
# with environmental var in PowerShell
python $env:md2med_SCRIPT --doc_name "hello there!" --file_to_publish "./test_doc.md" --tag "python"