Write your blog in Markdown with Emacs and post it directly to Google Blogger

For those who using Emacs, Markdown and Blogger

You write your blog entry in Emacs and with Markdown format Then you issue a M-x blogger-post command in emacs, It convert the markdown to html and post it to your Blogger blog.

How to Install

• See An Emacs Client For Blogger to install g-client (You'd better check it out from repository)
• See Emacs markdown-mode to install Emacs markdown-mode
• Put the following script to your emacs load path

The code

(require 'gblogger)

(defvar markdown-blogger-new-entry-template
  "<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
  <generator url=\"%s\">%s</generator>
  <author> <name>%s </name> </author>
  <title mode=\"escaped\" type=\"text/html\">%s </title>
  <content type='xhtml'>
    <div xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">
%s
    </div>
  </content>
</entry>"
  "Template for new Blogger entries.")

(defun blogger-post()
  (interactive)

  (markdown)
  (set-buffer (get-buffer "*markdown-output*"))

  (setq post-url "http://www\.blogger\.com/feeds/7841127/posts/default")
  (setq markdown-buffer (current-buffer))
  (setq markdown-content (buffer-string))

  (setq title (read-string "Title: "))

  (setq buffer (get-buffer-create "*markdown-blogger-post*"))

  (declare (special gblogger-auth-handle markdown-blogger-new-entry-template
                    gblogger-generator-name ))

  (g-auth-ensure-token gblogger-auth-handle)




  (set-buffer buffer)
  (erase-buffer)
  (insert (format markdown-blogger-new-entry-template
                  gblogger-generator-name gblogger-generator-name
                  "Felix Sun" title markdown-content))
  (switch-to-buffer buffer)
  (g-app-mode)

  (setq g-app-this-url post-url
        g-app-auth-handle gblogger-auth-handle
        g-app-publish-action 'g-app-post-entry)


  (g-app-publish)
)