Better automation #12
Description
We already made a pretty solid automatic content generation pipeline, but the process of putting each post to the WeChat official account is still cumbersome.
AFAIK the WeChat editor allows (and probably only supports) pasting HTML (with styles) as a rich text source. So this is how I mirror the contents:
- create a new post draft on WeChat (have to be manually done);
- open the web version and copy the title (which automatically has a hidden c13n suffix after it) and description (but it is outside each post page and only visible in the list of posts);
- copy the content by the copy button that automatically adds information to the content (markdown copied);
- paste the content to mdnice.com for a HTMLified content with some provided templates (i.e., with CSS embedded) and copy the HTML;
- paste the HTML into WeChat editor;
- manually add author information, website link, and cover photo; and
- click post and scan the QR code for confirmation (also have to be done manually).
As you can see, this is not an easy, sustainable process, despite that it is already simplified very much on the markdown copying side.
So my request is to make the process easier, or at least make a single page that I can do all the copying works. I could share a snippet generated by mdnice later and please have a look on it. A primary step should be getting the styled HTML in one step.