Batch publish markdown articles

JerryYang

Is there any way to publish markdown articles in batches

katos

Do you want to queue discussions and have these fire on a schedule? Can you elaborate on what you're after please? 🙂

JerryYang

katos I need to release the administrator or editor can batch release some articles, they all use the Markdown, but are stored in a single folder Markdown document, so I'm thinking is there any way to achieve this function, but I can't write extension language, so there is no way to write some good extension.

SKevo

You could code a script with something like pyFlarum to automatically iterate over the files in the folder and post them as discussions, if that's something that you're looking for and you are familiar with Python. I could also do this for you, it seems simple to do.

clarkwinkelmann

If you wish to write a script in an other language than python, you could use the Flarum REST API directly: https://docs.flarum.org/rest-api/

I don't think there is any extension that enables any kind of batch-publishing from the Flarum web interface at the moment.

Maybe you could partially automate something with the Direct Links extension and the ?content= query string, so that you open all your files into the browser but still manually connect to Flarum and press submit. Though you might hit browser limits regarding URL length if you try inserting some very long content in the URL.

JerryYang

SKevo I'm really sorry that BECAUSE I live in China, my network cannot access the websites of other regions recently, so I didn't reply you immediately!

With regard to Python you mentioned, I think it's a bit difficult for me, I just have some HTML and CSS
I tried to learn Python, but due to work reasons, I failed all the time. I'm sorry that I can't do a development with my ability
I figured I could patiently wait for someone with similar needs to develop an extension or script that I could use directly again.

SKevo

JerryYang you wouldn't need to know how to code. The requirements would be to just have Python installed, then you can run the script by 1 command

JerryYang

SKevo Is the threshold really that low? If so, I think I can carry out an operation, but maybe not now. I will reply again when I have time today, is that ok with you

SKevo

JerryYang I have done some work here already, for the benefit of the community: https://github.com/CWKevo/pyflarum-bulk-discussions. You can check if that's something you want, I'll make a post at Discuss later today too.

Edit: See this discussion

JerryYang

SKevo Due to my unstable state at the time, I am very sorry that it took me a year to express my gratitude to you. The Python code you wrote for me was excellent and it fulfilled my requirements very well!
Perhaps the community I came into contact with was not friendly. When you specifically wrote a script for me and posted it on GitHub, I was surprised. This made me feel the atmosphere of mutual assistance in the community, and no one used information differences to attack. This is very good!