@minodisk/medkit

A SDK for post creation and update by emulating operation on Medium's post edit screen with Headless Chromium via puppetter.

Installation

npm:

npm install --save @minodisk/medkit

yarn:

yarn add @minodisk/medkit

Usage

import Client from "@minodisk/medkit";

(async () => {
  const client = new Client();
  const postId = await client.createPost(
    "<h3>Title</h3><h4>Subtitle</h4><p>Text</p>",
  );
  const html = await client.readPost(postId); // ->  "<h1>Title</h1><h2>Subtitle</h2><p>Text</p>" or "<h3>Title</h3><h4>Subtitle</h4><p>Text</p>"
  await client.updatePost(
    postId,
    "<h3>Title</h3><h4>Subtitle</h4><p>Modified</p>",
  );
  await client.destroyPost(postId);
  await client.close();
})();

API

new Client(options?: {cookiesPath?: string}): Client

new Client() returns Client. cookiesPath in options is "cookies.json" in default.

Client.prototype.createPost(html: string): Promise<string>

createPost opens Medium's new story screen and pastes the passed html in the post field. When saving the post is completed, returned Promise will pass the post ID to the next step and complete.

Client.prototype.readPost(postId: string): Promise<string>

readPost opens Medium's edit screen with post ID postId and gets the HTML in post filed. When getting the post HTML is completed, returned Promise will pass that HTML to the next step and complete.

Client.prototype.updatePost(postId: string, html: string): Promise<void>

updatePost opens Medium's edit story screen with post ID postId and pastes the passed html in the post field. When saving the post is completed, returned Promise will complete.

Client.prototype.destroyPost(postId: string): Promise<void>

destroyPost opens Medium's edit story screen with post IDpostId and clicks delete button. When deleting the post is completed, returned Promise will complete.

Client.prototype.close(): Promise<void>

close closes Chromium. When closing Chromium is completed, returned Promise will complete.