BlogTo is a vscode extension which helps your post your ideas to medium.com, hashnode.com, and dev.to
Beta release. Extension may have some issue or bugs.
Why BlogTo was build :
- Create a utility tool to let people blog faster
- Avoiding the friction
- Giving enough features and flexibility.
Features (0.6.1):
- Post blogs to dev.to, medium and hashnode
- Simple UI
- Good feedback.
- Simple to set up
Setup up :
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Download the extension here
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Click on the config button, set up the api tokens for medium, dev.to and hashnode.
- This will fetch user data and save it localSession in vscode.
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Open any markdown files in Vscode and Start posting blogs.
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Issues and Error
- github here
Upcoming Features,Bugs, issues and possible solutions.
- Image uploading
- Extract all the image tags, uploading them on the platform via api, get the image url and replace them in the markdown.
- There is a limit of 10 requests per 30 seconds.(dev.to)
- Posting as organisation
Alternative to BlogTo:
- CLI tool for cross posting
- https://github.com/shahednasser/cross-post
- read here for setup : here
- Chrome Extension plugin
- Website Service ( a whole package )
Will be writing an extended version on blogto. Do let me know if you guys face any issue or have any feedback.