Do you want to schedule your
Jekyll
blog post to be published on GitHub Pages on future date time? Then read this article.
Introduction
Jekyll static site hosted on GitHub Pages doesnβt come with schedule blog post for future feature.
In this article, I will write a job to automatically post future blog posts and send email after successful post.
Creating GitHub workflow for publishing future post
We will create one workflow that will run every day and it will publish the post for future dates.
- Create your oneGitHub Secrete key call it GH_TOKEN.
- Add
future:false
in_config.yml
- Create
schedule-posts.yml
in.github\workflows
folder. Add below script.Learn more about cron event
name: Build every hour
on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 0 * * *" # Run at the end of every day.
jobs:
curl:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: curl
uses: wei/curl@master
with:
args:
"-X POST -H 'Authorization: token $'
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.ant-man-preview+json'
https://api.github.com/repos/YourUserName/YourRepository/pages/builds"
- See how I wrote mine workflow.
You are all set now you can create a post for future date and your post will be published on that date.
- If you run the Jekyll at local machine you will notice that your new post is not getting published immediately. It will skip those posts to publish.
- This post will be published only when the date will come.
Sending e-mail on successful blog publish
I will use Gmail user id and password to send automatic email once blog publish is done.
Create MAIL_USERNAME
and MAIL_PASSWORD
GitHub secretes
Add below script to send email.
- name: Send email
uses: dawidd6/action-send-mail@v2.4.0
with:
server_address: smtp.googlemail.com
server_port: 465
username: $
password: $
subject: Publishing Blog
# Literal body:
body: Build job of $ completed successfully!
to: fullstackmaster1@gmail.com
from: GitHub Blog Repo
Change email Id and names.
- Here is myschedule-post file from master branch.
You are all set now!
Reference
- https://seankilleen.com/2020/02/how-to-deploy-github-pages-on-a-schedule-to-publish-future-posts/
- https://github.com/dawidd6/action-send-mail
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Top comments (1)
What should I put in the 'Secret' box when adding the action secret?