lob-story

Post items to Lobste.rs

Installation

$ npm install --save lob-story

Usage

The example shown below will post a link on Lobste.rs.

var lob = require('lob-story');

lob({
  username: '{{your username}}',
  password: '{{your password}}',
  title: 'Example Blog Article',
  url: 'http://exampleblog.com/articles/example-blog-article'
}, done);

function done (err, res, body, story) {
  // handle response
}

API

lob(options, done)

Posts an article on Lobste.rs by making a series of requests against their website. Takes some options, detailed below.

Property | Description --------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ username | Your username, used to authenticate, and to post stories on your behalf password | Your password, used to authenticate title | The title for the story url | The URL to the story description | A description of the story author | Boolean value indicating whether the submitter is the author of the story

When the requests against Lobste.rs are done, the done callback will be invoked with four arguments.

• err will have an error if one occurred, and null otherwise
• res will be a response object
• body will be the response body
• story will be a link to the story on Lobste.rs

CLI

The CLI has a simple interface. You'll be asked for your credentials once, and they'll be stored at ~/.lob. You can edit that file directly, the CLI expects YAML.

$ cat ~/.lob

username: foo,
password: foo

$ lob -t "some title" -u http://exampleblog.com -x "some text"
> https://lobste.rs/s/$YOUR_STORY

CLI Usage

Usage:
  lob <options>

Options:
  -t, --title               | Title for the news item
  -u, --url, --uri          | URL to the news item
  -d, --desc, --description | Text describing the news item
  --tags                    | Space-separated list of tags for the story
  -a, --author, --no-author | Whether you\'re the author for the story

License

MIT