georgemandis

Convert Emails to Blog Drafts This val will receive inbound emails and create a new Markdown file in a specified GitHub repository. Create drafts for your static site (or, for the bold, publish directly!) by simply sending an email! Notes This script assumes you're using some kind of static site generator that can read from a GitHub repository. There are many to choose from in this space. I'm partial to 11ty Gmail is doing some heavy-lifting for me here in terms of kindly converting my HTML email to Markdown behind the scenes. It's not a guarantee all email providers do this. If yours does not, you may have to investigate an HTML-to-Markdown conversion step. We'll use the GitHub API via Octokit to create the file. You'll need to create a token and store it an an environmental variable in your Val Town settings. Enjoy! — George https://george.mand.is/2024/09/using-email-and-val-town-to-draft-blog-posts/