OpenBlog

Open-source AI-powered blog generation system — 12-stage pipeline for producing high-quality, AEO-optimized articles.

✨ Features

• 🔄 12-Stage Pipeline — Modular, testable stages from data fetch to HTML output
• 🎯 AEO Optimization — Built-in Answer Engine Optimization scoring (70-85+ scores)
• 🔍 Smart Citations — Automatic source validation and formatting
• 📝 Rich Content — FAQ/PAA extraction, internal links, ToC generation
• 🖼️ Image Generation — AI-powered featured images via OpenRouter
• 🌐 Multi-language — Supports multiple languages with auto-detection
• ⚡ Fast — 60-90 second generation time

📋 Pipeline Stages

Stage 0: Data Fetch & Company Detection
Stage 1: Prompt Construction
Stage 2: AI Content Generation (Gemini + tools)
Stage 3: Structured Data Extraction
Stage 4: Citation Validation ─┐
Stage 5: Internal Links      │ (parallel)
Stage 6: Table of Contents   │
Stage 7: Metadata            │
Stage 8: FAQ/PAA Enhancement │
Stage 9: Image Generation   ─┘
Stage 10: Cleanup & Validation
Stage 11: HTML Generation & Storage

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

git clone https://github.com/SCAILE-it/openblog.git
cd openblog
pip install -r requirements.txt

Environment Variables

# Required
OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your_openrouter_key

# Optional - for Google Drive integration
GOOGLE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON='{"type":"service_account",...}'
GOOGLE_DELEGATION_SUBJECT=user@domain.com

API Usage

# Start the server
uvicorn service.api:app --reload

# Generate a blog
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/blog/write \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "primary_keyword": "AI in customer service",
    "company_url": "https://example.com"
  }'

Python Usage

from pipeline.core.workflow_engine import WorkflowEngine
from pipeline.core.execution_context import ExecutionContext

engine = WorkflowEngine()
context = ExecutionContext(
    job_id="test-123",
    job_config={
        "primary_keyword": "AI adoption in customer service",
        "company_url": "https://example.com",
    },
)

result = await engine.execute(context)
print(result.final_article["Headline"])

🏗️ Project Structure

openblog/
├── pipeline/
│   ├── blog_generation/    # 12 stages (stage_00 to stage_11)
│   ├── core/               # Workflow engine, execution context
│   ├── models/             # Data models, AI clients
│   ├── processors/         # HTML, citations, sitemap
│   ├── prompts/            # Prompt templates
│   └── utils/              # AEO scorer, helpers
├── service/
│   ├── api.py              # FastAPI endpoints
│   └── image_generator.py  # Image generation
├── tests/                  # Test suite
├── docs/                   # Documentation
├── modal_deploy.py         # Modal deployment
└── requirements.txt

📊 Output Quality

• AEO Score: 70-85+ / 100
• Generation Time: 60-90 seconds
• Citation Validation: Automatic URL checking
• HTML Output: Clean, semantic markup

🔧 Deployment

Modal (Recommended)

pip install modal
modal deploy modal_deploy.py

Docker

docker build -t openblog .
docker run -p 8000:8000 openblog

📖 Documentation

• Architecture Overview
• Detailed Architecture
• Input Requirements
• Async Architecture

🧪 Testing

pytest tests/ -v
pytest tests/stages/test_stage_00.py -v  # Test specific stage

📝 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please read the contributing guidelines before submitting PRs.

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