.. highlight:: sh ================================ blog: (micro)blogging management ================================ Blog commands are high level tools to handle an XMPP blog. They are using the generic pubsub arguments .. _libervia_cli_blog_common_pub: Common Publishing Options ========================= The `set` and `edit` commands support a range of options for customizing blog post creation and editing. Some notable options include: ``--no-id-suffix`` This option removes the randomly generated suffix from the auto-generated, user-friendly ID. The suffix is initially added to ensure unique IDs, especially useful when two posts have similar titles. .. note:: When the ``--no-id-suffix`` option is selected, an extra validation is performed to check for ID uniqueness. If an existing item already uses the same ID, a suffix is added to the new ID regardless of the option, ensuring no existing content is overwritten. This additional check incurs a slight performance impact due to the extra request needed. ``--alt-link URL [MEDIA_TYPE]`` Add an alternative link to a blog post, such as a corresponding HTTP page. The *URL* parameter is mandatory, while *MEDIA_TYPE* is optional. Incorporate ``{service}``, ``{node}``, and ``{item}`` as template values within the URL. These will be replaced with the actual values when the item is published. To use curly braces literally, double them: ``{{`` and ``}}``. example ------- Louise wants to add a link to her public facing HTML blog in her item:: $ li blog set --alt-link https://example.org/blog/{node}/{item} set === publish a blog item. :ref:`pubsub_common` commands are used to specify the destination item. ``stdin`` is used to get the body of the blog post. Also see :ref:`libervia_cli_blog_common_pub`. |e2e_arg| |pte_arg| |sign_arg| examples -------- Create a blog post with a body, a subject, 2 tags, and with comments allowed:: $ echo "This is post body" | li blog set -T "This is a test message" -t test -t li -C Create a blog post with rich content using `markdown` syntax, and no subject:: $ echo "This is a **rich** body" | li blog set -S markdown get === get command retrieves one or more blog post(s) from specified location (by default the personal blog of the profile). output can be customised to only retrieve some keys, or to use a specific template. For instance, the following command retrieves only the title and publication date of the personal blog of the profile:: $ li blog get -k title -k published :ref:`pubsub_common` commands are used to specify the blog location. examples -------- Retrieve personal blog of the profile using `fancy` output with a verbosity of 1 (to show publication date):: $ li blog get -O fancy -v Retrieve *title* and *publication date* of last 3 blog posts from the blog at https://www.goffi.org:: $ li blog get -m 3 -u https://www.goffi.org -k title -k published Retrieve last 2 posts of personal blog, and output them in browser using default template:: $ li blog get -m 2 -O template --oo browser .. _libervia-cli_blog_edit: edit ==== With edit command you can create a new blog post or modify an existing one using your local editor (the one set in ``$EDITOR``). You'll edit 2 things: the body of the post, and the metadata which contain things like title, comments infos, or tags. For some common editors (like **vim** or **Emacs**), the editor will be automatially opened using a split screen with *body* in one side, and metadata on the other. If the editor is not supported or doesn't support split screen, you'll edit first the *body*, then the *metadata*. You can also specify editor and arguments in ``libervia.conf``, see `configuration `_ below If you don't change anything or publish an empty blog post, the edition will be cancelled. In the metadata (see `below `_ for details), you can use ``"publish": false`` to forbid the publication (or set it with ``--no-publish argument``). In this case, when you'll save your modification and quit your editor, the blog post will not be published but saved locally in a draft. To continue your work later, just start your edition with the ``-D, --current`` option like this:: $ li blog edit -D Note that item location must be re-specified if it has been used to create the draft, so you'll have to reproduce the arguments to specify service, node or item (or the URL), other data like tags will be restored from draft file of metadata. You can specify the syntax by using ``-S SYNTAX, --syntax SYNTAX``. If not specified, the syntax set in your parameters will be used. When you edit a blog post, it is often useful to activate the ``-P, --preview`` option, this will launch a web browser and refresh the page each time you save a modification in your editor. By default, the browser registered as default in your system will be used, and a new tab will be opened on each modification. This is not ideal, and we recommand to set you configuration to activate automatic refreshing of the page instead, see `preview configuration `_ below to see how to do. .. note:: If --preview doesn't work, use ``li blog preview`` (see below) to get error messages. On GNU/Linux, Be sure that inotify Python module is installed correctly. Also see :ref:`libervia_cli_blog_common_pub`. |e2e_arg| |pte_arg| |sign_arg| examples -------- Edit a new blog post with comments on your personal blog, using default syntax and preview:: $ li blog edit -P --comments Modifiy a draft previously saved using the ``"publish": false`` metadata:: $ li blog edit -D Correct a typo in your last published blog post:: $ li blog edit --last-item Edit the blog item at an HTTPS URL using XHTML syntax:: $ li blog edit -u https://www.example.net/some_xmpp_blog_article.html -S xhtml Create a new blog post on a XMPP blog node using its HTTPS URL (supposing here that https://example.net is a XMPP blog node):: $ li blog edit -u https://www.example.net .. _edit_metadata: metadata -------- Metadata is set using a JSON object. The key you can use are: publish boolean indicating if item can be published. Set to ``false`` if you want to work on a draft and to avoid accidental publication. atom_id atom entry identifier. This should not be modified manually. published time of initial publication (unix time). This should not be modified manually. language language of the content comments array of URIs to the comments node, if any. tag array of tags, if any author human readable name of the entry author author_jid jid of the author. This should notbe modified manually. author_jid_verified true if the pubsub service confirmed that author_jid is the one of the publisher. It is useless to modify this variable. title the title of the message title_rich the rich title of the message, in current text syntax. It will be automatically converted to xhtml. .. _edit_conf: configuration ------------- editor ^^^^^^ Local editor used is by default the one set in ``$EDITOR`` environment variable, but you can specify one in ``libervia.conf``. To do so, you have to set the name of an editor executable in the ``editor`` option in ``[li]`` section. You can specify the args to use by using ``blog_editor_args`` option. Use ``{content_file}`` to get the path of the main content file (the body of the blog post), and ``{metadata_file}`` to get the path of the json metadata. .. sourcecode:: cfg [li] editor = kate blog_editor_args = {content_file} {metadata_file} .. _edit_preview: preview ^^^^^^^ To set the preview, you can use the options ``blog_preview_open_cmd`` and ``blog_preview_update_cmd`` in your ``[li]`` section. the former is the command to use to open your browser when edition starts, and the later is the command to use when a modification is saved. In both cases you may use ``{url}`` to set the location of local HTML file. This can be used to activate automatic refreshing of the page. For **Konqueror**, you can use its D-Bus API to do refreshing. Ensure that ``qdbus`` is installed on your system, and enter the following lines in your ``libervia.conf``: .. sourcecode:: cfg [li] blog_preview_open_cmd = konqueror {url} blog_preview_update_cmd = /bin/sh -c "qdbus $(qdbus org.kde.konqueror\*) /konqueror/MainWindow_1 reload" For **Firefox**, you may use ``xdotool`` on X11. Once you have installed this tool, enter the following lines in your ``libervia.conf``: .. sourcecode:: cfg [li] blog_preview_open_cmd = firefox -new-tab {url} blog_preview_update_cmd = /bin/sh -c "WID=$(xdotool search --name 'Mozilla Firefox' | head -1); xdotool windowactivate $WID; xdotool key F5" This *xdotool* technique can be adapted to other browsers. syntax extensions ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A dictionary with a mapping from syntax name to file extension can be used. This can be useful to activate the right syntax highlighting in your editor. There is a default mapping which can be overriden. The mapping is set in the ``syntax_ext_dict`` option of the ``[li]`` section of your ``libervia.conf`` file. For instance, if your prefer do your ``.markdown`` for temp files instead of the default ``.md``, you can use this: .. sourcecode:: cfg [li] syntax_ext_dict = {"markdown": "markdown"} the first ``markdown`` is the name of the syntax (could be an other syntax like ``xhtml``), while the second if the file extension. rename ====== Move a item to a new ID. This works the same as :ref:`li-pubsub_rename`, the only difference is that node defaults to microblog default namespace. example ------- After a typo, a use want to rename the blog item with ID ``my_great_tittle_123a`` to ``my_great_title_123a``:: $ li blog rename -i my_great_tittle_123a my_great_title_123a repeat ====== Re-publish a blog item on profile's blog. This is similar to may be called in other networks "share" or "boot", the goal is mainly to send this post of interest to our subscribers to make it more visible. It only needs arguments to get item to repeat location. example ------- Pierre wants to repeat a blog post from Louise to make it more visible:: $ li blog repeat -s louise@example.org -n urn:xmpp:microblog:0 -i culture-new-caledonia-456f preview ======= This command will show the specified file in browser, and refresh it when changes are detected. Configuration is the same as for `edit preview `_. This can be used if you have already started an edition with ``li blog edit`` but forgot to use the ``-P, --preview`` arguments. example ------- Preview the draft at ``~/.local/share/libervia/blog/some_name/blog_something.md``:: $ li blog preview ~/.local/share/libervia/blog/some_name/blog_something.md .. _libervia-cli_blog_import: import ====== With this command you can import an external blog in a XMPP blog at the specified pubsub location. The import is done using an *importer* name and a *location* which depends of the importer (it can be a path to a file, an URL to a blog, or something else). Let empty to get list of importers, and specify only importer name to get its description. By default, found images are re-uploaded to XMPP server, if you want to keep original URLs, use the ``--no-images-upload`` option. Alternatively, you can re-upload images except for a specific host with ``--upload-ignore-host UPLOAD_IGNORE_HOST``. The images for the specified host will keep there original URLs while other will be uploaded to XMPP server. You shoud specify original blog host using ``--host HOST`` argument, this is used notably to reconstruct relative URLs of media. Importers may have specific options, you can set them using the ``-o NAME VALUE, --option NAME VALUE`` argument. Check the importer description for details. examples: --------- List available importers:: $ li blog import Get description of ``dotclear`` importer:: $ li blog import dotclear import a Dotclear blog:: $ li blog import dotclear /path/to/dotclear.dump import a Dotclear blog without uploading images:: $ li blog import --no-images-upload dotclear /path/to/dotclear.dump attachments =========== Subcommands to add or remove data attached to pubsub items. Please check :ref:`libervia-cli_blog_attachments`.