telegraphcl

telegra.ph from your friendly terminal.

Introduction

telegra.ph is a minimalist content publishing platform for users to quickly share richly formatted post. telegraphcl lets you use telegra.ph from command-line, using Markdown file to draft your posts.

Here's what you can do with telegraphcl

Installation

Please make sure go binaries are accessible. i.e for UNIX,

$ export PATH=$PATH:~/go/bin/

Using golang installation

$ go get github.com/plant99/telegraphcl/cmd/telegraphcl

Using docker

Let's say examples directory has the markdown files to be used to create/edit pages.

$ docker run -v ~/.telegraphcl:/root/.telegraphcl -v "$PWD"/examples:/root/telegraph-blogs/ -it plant99/telegraphcl --help

Usage

$ telegraphcl --help

Usage:
  telegraphcl [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  page        Manage your Telegra.ph pages
  user        Operations related to Telegraph account management
  version     Print the version number of telegraphcl

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for telegraphcl

Use "telegraphcl [command] --help" for more information about a command.

user

With this command, one can handle an user account to manage your pages. A token is generated and stored at ~/.telegraphcl/telegraph.token

Operations related to Telegraph account management

Usage:
  telegraphcl user [command]

Available Commands:
  create      Create an user
  edit        Edit current user information
  revoke      Revoke current access token, and regenerate access token.
  view        View current user information

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for user

Use "telegraphcl user [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Some things to note on user management.

1. If you run the following command after creating an user

    $ telegraphcl user view
   

   The AuthURL can be used in web-browsers to authenticate this user to perform create/edit operations from the user account referred to by the telegraph.token.

2. revoke option revokes the current access token, and creates a new one for the same user account.

page

With this option, one can manage pages. Some things to note

1. Markdown files are used to create, and edit a page. If one changes the pages on a browser these changes don't currently sync with the markdown files one used to create a page.
2. means the identity of the 'page' with telegraph. For example, https://telegra.ph/some-title-11-07. The <path> for this URL is some-title-11-07.
3. <markdown-path> means path to the Markdown file used to create/edit a telegra.ph page.
4. Create a directory to keep all the Markdown files for telegra.ph pages. This would here on be referenced as <markdown-dir>

Manage your Telegra.ph pages

Usage:
  telegraphcl page [command]

Available Commands:
  create      Create Page from a Markdown file. Arguments: <markdown-path> <title>
  edit        Edit page with Telegra.ph path. Arguments: <path> <markdown-path>
  get         Get page with Telegra.ph path. Arguments: <path>
  list        List your Telegra.ph pages
  views       Count views on your Telegra.ph page. Arguments: <path>

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for page

Use "telegraphcl page [command] --help" for more information about a command.

create

Create a markdown file in <markdown-dir>, say first_page.md. Then run the following command

$ telegraphcl page create <markdown-dir>/first_page.md "My first blog"

Note for docker image users: The WORKDIR is /root/telegraph-blogs so to reference files, you can assume you're running telegraph from <markdown-dir>. So assuming examples is my <markdown-dir>, the following would create a page.

$ docker run -v ~/.telegraphcl:/root/.telegraphcl -v "$PWD"/examples:/root/telegraph-blogs/ -it plant99/telegraphcl page create tiny_blogpost.md some-title

list

List the pages you created by running the following command

$ telegraphcl page list

get

To get details of a page, record the <path> of the page. Then run

$ telegraphcl page get <path>

edit

To edit a page, record the <path> of the page. Make modifications to first_page.md, then run

$ telegraphcl page edit <path> <markdown-dir>/first_page.md

views

To get the count of views on a particular page, run the following command.

$ telegraphcl page views <path>

version

Prints the version of telegraphcl.

Note

telegra.ph doesn't support all Markdown formatting

1. h1 elements, # in Markdown format.
2. h2 elements, ## in Markdown format.

There could be others, please raise an issue in that case, the documentation would be updated.

Contributing

Please file an issue, or make a patch via GitHub PRs if you have time.

Credits

This is an educational project to practice some Golang, some code has been used unabridged from https://github.com/toby3d/telegraph and
https://github.com/meinside/telegraph-go

Thank you, for checking out telegraphcl.