chrishannah / pst

CLI tool to publish posts to Micro.blog in Rust.

pst

A simple command-line tool to publish short posts to Micro.blog.

This is partially a personal project to learn Rust, but also to build something that I will use myself. If other people find it useful in any capacity, then that is a bonus.

installation

cargo

You can install pst directly from cargo. Just use the following command:

cargo install pst

homebrew

pst is available from homebrew, however you'll need to use a custom tap. Although it's still pretty easy:

brew tap chrishannah/pst
brew install pst

usage

Using pst is pretty simple.

The command is pst, you then need to say if it's a draft or not, by using draft or post, and then you write your micro post.

So to write a draft post, you would do something like this:

pst draft "Hello, world. This is a draft post"

Or to publish it directly:

pst post "only losers draft posts"

Keep in mind, that if you use anything other than draft or post, it will default to a draft post.

configuration

pst is configured using a rather simple json file, stored in your home directory, under .config/pst/config.json. It only needs to contain your Micro.blog app token in the following format:

{
    "token": "micro.blog token"
}