How to Automate Dev.to Publishing with GitHub Actions

Writing blog posts is great, but manually posting them across multiple platforms can be tedious. In this article, we will build an automated pipeline using Python, Google Fire, and GitHub Actions to publish markdown articles directly from a GitHub repository to Dev.to.

The Workflow

We will maintain three directories in our repository:

1. articles/02_draft/: For articles currently being written.
2. articles/01_notyet/: For articles that are finished and ready to be published.
3. articles/03_published/: For articles that have been successfully published.

An automated script running on GitHub Actions will execute periodically, pick any markdown files in articles/01_notyet/, publish them to Dev.to using their API, and move them to articles/03_published/ to keep track.

Stay tuned for more automation tips!