Jekyll bookmarklet [AutoKey script]

Since I have moved to Jekyll I have been writing a lot many posts. A major reason is the easy with which I can write the posts now.

I created a small AutoKey script:

import datetime
import time
import sys
import re

# EDIT & CUSTOMIZE the following two lines
location = '/home/pratyush/Websites/pratyushmittal.github.com/'
text_editor = 'sublime-text-2 -n'


def to_slug(text):
    new_name = text.lower().replace(' ', '-')
    new_name = re.sub('-+', '-', new_name)
    pattern = re.compile('[^a-z0-9-]+')
    new_name = pattern.sub('', new_name).strip('-')
    return new_name

keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+c")
text = clipboard.get_selection()
text = '\n'.join(['> ' + line for line in text.split('\n')])

keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+l")
time.sleep(1)
keyboard.send_keys("<ctrl>+c")
time.sleep(1)
link = clipboard.get_selection()
cb, post_title = dialog.input_dialog("New Blog Post", "Content: %s \nLink: %s\nPost Title:" % (text[:140], link))
if not post_title:
   sys.exit()
cb, slug_title = dialog.input_dialog("New Blog Post", "slug Title", '%s' % post_title)
slug_title = to_slug(slug_title)

time_stamp = output = system.exec_command("date")
postname = '%s-%s' % (datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d"), slug_title)
post_url = '%s_posts/%s.md' % (location, postname)
with open(post_url, 'w') as post:
    content = '---\ndate: %s\nlayout: post\ntitle: %s\ndescription: \nlink: %s\ntags: [""]\n---\n\n%s\n\n' % (time_stamp, post_title, link, text)
    post.write(content)

system.exec_command("%s %s" % (text_editor, post_url), getOutput=False)

I have set the keyboard shortcut for the above as <super>+b. It asks for a title, automatically creates a post in your specified directory and opens it in your favourite text editor.

I know the above is not a bookmarklet and the title is mis-worded. But after setting up Jekyll, that was the first thing I searched for. It landed me on a blog-post by Jonathan who had written a similar script but only for Mac. Using his idea, I wrote the above script for AutoKey which works well on Ubuntu (or any Linux distribution).

There is also a pure browser-based bookmarklet too, written by Kester. It lets you write the post-content right from the browser.