Create Jekyll Post with Python
Jekyll-post.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- encoding:utf-8 -*-
# The MIT License (MIT)
#
# Copyright (c) 2016 Roy Xu
import argparse
import time
import uuid
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Jekyll Post')
parser.add_argument('title', help='The title of the post.')
parser.add_argument('category', help='The categores of the post.')
parser.add_argument('--tag', help='The tags of the post.')
args = parser.parse_args()
title = args.title
categories = args.category
tags = args.tag if args.tag else args.category
name, date = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d') + '-' + title.replace(' ','-') + '.md', time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S %z')
disqus_identifier = uuid.uuid4().int
yaml = '''---
layout: post
title: "%s"
date: %s
categories: %s
tags: %s
disqus_identifier: %d
---'''
post = yaml % (title, date, categories, tags, disqus_identifier)
fp = None
try:
fp = open(name, 'w')
fp.write(post)
finally:
if fp:
fp.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
Usage
$ python jekyll-post.py "foo bar" "['hello','world']"
$ cat 2016-03-29-foo-bar.md
---
layout: post
title: "foo bar"
date: 2016-03-29 19-39-52 +0800
categories: ['hello','world']
tags: ['hello','world']
disqus_identifier: 199975908006844180551570514566123396410
---