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Cross post to dev.to from Webflow or Google Docs - How to handle formatting?

Rich Steinmetz on June 29, 2020

Hey folks! I really would like to share my work with the dev.to community because I think I can solve a problem someone has here or there ;) Ho...
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Muhimen
  1. You can write the full article with markdown (that's what I do)

  2. You can use cloudinary for uploading the photos

  3. You can update the post with DEV API.

Take a look at the API, it might fix all your issues. 😊

Finally, welcome to the DEV community.

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Rich Steinmetz • Edited

Thanks!

It's not solving my issue on how to connect it in a pleasant way to webflow (and maybe even cross post to medium additionally) but it's nice to know that posting/updating with dev.to is nothing to worry about.. ☺️

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Muhimen

The main text editor of medium doesn't allow markdown. However, just like DEV, you can use Medium's API endpoints to post a blog.
Point to be noted: You can't edit posts with medium API

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Rich Steinmetz

thanks man, this is very valuable information!

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Rich Steinmetz

and also, what would I do with my already created posts?

it's about 15 thousand unmarkdowned words lost in RTF πŸ˜…

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Muhimen

DEV allows crossposting. Just copy the canonical URL of your already created posts.

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Rich Steinmetz

thanks for the idea! That's very nice outside-the-box thinking πŸš€πŸš€

I could even provide a canonical URL right away. (although the impact on SEO is a bit unclear because usually what you'll do is: posting your original content in your place and only after a few days cross-posting it so that search engines have enough time to figure out the original content)

However, webflow (my blog host) doesn't have the option to import HTML...

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Rich Steinmetz

I’ve built a little commandline tool for that now.

Check it out, if you’d like to host your markdown on webflow:

Full documentation over at my blog:

fullstack.coach/post/how-to-write-...

Thanks again to dev.to and dev.to/muhimen123
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