Scripting News content on the repo, nightly updates

[scripting]

See this post on Scripting News for background.

All of the content we upload is in the blog folder.

There are three types of data that are uploaded here every night, and there might be others.

1. days -- each day's posts in a JSON file.

2. items -- the content of each post in JSON.

3. pages -- each day's blog, in HTML.

If you have ideas for building off this stuff, go for it. That's one of the reasons I'm doing this. The other is to prove that you can use GitHub in place of S3 for content management applications. To see if there are any glitches, content it won't handle, and if it's reliable.

Dave

[scripting]

Of course GitHub has file size limits, which seem very generous.

https://github.com/blog/1533-new-file-size-limits

Dave

[rtanglao]

hi dave since november 12, i've been manually storing my jekyll blog in git and github
i just do:

• cd wherever my github repo ( https://github.com/rtanglao/rtDOTcom ) is
• daily do (write some stuff, save it, jekyll build, upload to my static site hosting provider, although i suppose i could write in github.com using their web interface (and run jekyll in the cloud so i wouldn't need a laptop to run jekyll on!))

git add .
git commit -m "add today's entry"
git push

i don't have an app to do it automatically, i guess i should write one like yours, great idea!

And yes their file size limits are very generous, very suitable for a text blog with simple images, not for video!

[scripting]

Follow-up --

The script worked the second night too, so the burn-in is looking good.

https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/tree/master/blog

Dave