cross-post VS cross-post

Almost a year ago, I wrote about how I created a CLI tool to cross-post articles to Dev.to, Hashnode, and Medium. I created the tool because it made the process easier for me, but I also received a lot of feedback from other writers about how it was helpful for them.

Dev.to has a REST api and hashnode has a GraphQL endpoints so there must be a tool that uses these endpoints right? Yes there are couple ones. I found two actual products that you need to pay but didn’t want to go for that. And finally I found this github repo.

Cross Post: Cross Post a blog to multiple websites. This Node.js tool allows you to cross-post articles to DEV.to, Hashnode, and Medium. Suggested Read: I Created a CLI to Cross-Post Your Articles On Dev, Hashnode, and Medium.

The final piece of my blogging infrastructure is an NPM utility called cross-post. This will take the content from the main blog (in this case, the url for my CMS environment) and post to Hashnode and Dev.to. This post is my first attempt at this, so I’m crossing fingers.

So, I created a simple CLI to cross-post my articles on these platforms easily. You can find it onNPMand check the code onGitHub.

It is really handy and simple cli, that does the job well. In my case not so well since I had to configure it for my needs. What it does is actually getting the contents of the given URL, parses it to markdown and uses these platforms APIs to create a post there. I tried to post directly from the markup file I already have(since I am using VSCode to write)but dealing with frontmatter can be frustrating, so I’ve forked and edited that plugin. You can find mine here.