hugo-to-medium

Github action to directly post from hugo to medium. This is created for those who are always importing their own hugo blog to medium.It uses Medium's API to directly upload the post from hugo to medium

Usage

It uses commit message to identify which post to publish on medium. Simply while making a commit include at last PUBLISH <Your-post-name>.md

Example:

git commit -m "Added: post PUBLISH: my-arch-setup.md

Creating main.yml

A sample main.yml can be

on: [push]

jobs:
  hugo_to_medium_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: hugo-to-medium
    steps:
      # To use this repository's private action, you must check out the repository
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          ref: master
      - name: Hugo To medium Action step 
        uses: pr4k/Hugo-to-Medium@master # Uses an action in the root directory
        id: hello
        env:
          APP_ID: ${{secrets.APP_ID}}
          ACCESS_TOKEN: ${{secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN}}
          APP_SECRET: ${{secrets.APP_SECRET}}
          BLOG_DIR: ${{secrets.BLOG_DIR}}
      #

paste this to .github/workflow/main.yml

APP_ID: This is your medium Developer APP id , Go to Medium Applications ACCESS_TOKEN : This can be generated from Settings page APP_SECRET: This is your medium Developer APP Secret , Go to Medium Applications

Set these as your environment variable, and done