Post draft

examples/draft.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+title:
+  "How to publish a Substack post using the Python API"
+subtitle:
+  "This post was published using the Python API"
+body:
+  0:
+    type: "heading"
+    level: 1
+    content: "Steps"
+  1:
+    type: "paragraph"
+    content: "1)"
+  2:
+    type: "paragraph"
+    content: "Discover your USER ID by inspecting the request body of any publish request."
+  3:
+    type: "horizontal_rule"
+  4:
+    type: "paragraph"
+    content: "2)"
+  5:
+    type: "paragraph"
+    content: "Set the EMAIL, PASSWORD, PUBLICATION_URL and USER_ID environment variables."

examples/publish_post.py

@@ -1,30 +1,42 @@
+import argparse
 import os
 
+import yaml
 from dotenv import load_dotenv
 
 from substack import Api
+from substack.post import Post
 
 load_dotenv()
 
-content = ""
-title = ""
-subtitle = ""
+if __name__ == "__main__":
 
-api = Api(
-    email=os.getenv("EMAIL"),
-    password=os.getenv("PASSWORD"),
-    publication_url=os.getenv("PUBLICATION_URL"),
-)
+	parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+	parser.add_argument("-p", "--post", default="draft.yaml", required=True,
+	                    help="YAML file containing the post to publish.", type=str)
+	parser.add_argument("--publish", help="Publish the draft.", action="store_true")
+	args = parser.parse_args()
 
-body = f'{{"type":"doc","content": {content}}}'
+	with open(args.post, "r") as fp:
+		post_data = yaml.safe_load(fp)
 
-draft = api.post_draft(
-    [{"id": os.getenv("USER_ID"), "is_guest": False}],
-    title=title,
-    subtitle=subtitle,
-    body=body,
-)
+	title = post_data.get("title", "")
+	subtitle = post_data.get("subtitle", "")
+	body = post_data.get("body", {})
 
-api.prepublish_draft(draft.get("id"))
+	api = Api(
+		email=os.getenv("EMAIL"),
+		password=os.getenv("PASSWORD"),
+		publication_url=os.getenv("PUBLICATION_URL"),
+	)
 
-api.publish_draft(draft.get("id"))
+	post = Post(title, subtitle, os.getenv("USER_ID"))
+	for _, item in body.items():
+		post.add(item)
+
+	draft = api.post_draft(post.get_draft())
+
+	if args.publish:
+		api.prepublish_draft(draft.get("id"))
+
+		api.publish_draft(draft.get("id"))

pyproject.toml

@@ -10,16 +10,17 @@ packages = [
 
 readme = "README.md"
 
-repository = "https://github.com/hogier/python-substack"
-homepage = "https://github.com/hogier/python-substack"
+repository = "https://github.com/mazza8/python-substack"
+homepage = "https://github.com/mazza8/python-substack"
 
 keywords = ["substack"]
 
 [tool.poetry.dependencies]
 python = "^3.8"
 
 requests = "^2.28.1"
-python-dotenv = "^0.20.0"
+python-dotenv = "^0.21.0"
+PyYAML = "^6.0"
 
 
 [tool.poetry.dev-dependencies]