AI Blog Writer

🤖 A CLI tool that transforms web content into polished blog posts using AI. Scrape websites, pull Reddit discussions, and let OpenAI/Claude craft engaging articles - all from your terminal. Features a sleek TUI interface and smart image handling with AI-generated alt text.

Features

• Scrape content from multiple websites
• Parse Reddit posts and subreddits
• Generate AI-powered alt text for images
• Choose between OpenAI or Claude for blog generation
• Command-line interface with Click
• Support for multiple URLs and subreddits in a single command

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Victor-Evogor/ai-blog-writer
cd ai-blog-generator

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Set up environment variables in .env:

OPENAI_API_KEY=
CLAUDE_API_KEY=
REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET=

Usage

FastAPI Backend

Start the API server:

uvicorn api.main:app --reload

Access the API documentation:

• Swagger UI: http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs
• ReDoc: http://127.0.0.1:8000/redoc

The API provides endpoints for:

• POST /generate: Generate a blog post from URLs and subreddits
• GET /: Get API information

Example API request:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8000/generate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "urls": ["https://example.com"],
    "subreddits": ["technology"],
    "ai_model": "openai"
  }'

Command Line Interface (CLI)

Basic usage with website URLs:

python cli.py -u https://example.com -u https://example2.com -m openai

Using Reddit content:

python cli.py -s programming -s "https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/example"

Combining both sources with Claude AI:

python cli.py -u https://example.com -s programming -m claude

Text User Interface (TUI)

Launch the interactive TUI:

python tui.py

Or use Trogon to automatically generate a TUI from the CLI:

python cli.py --tui

The TUI provides an interactive interface where you can:

• Enter a blog title
• Add multiple URLs and subreddits
• Select the AI model
• Generate the blog with a single click

CLI Options

• -u, --urls: Website URLs to scrape (can be used multiple times)
• -s, --subreddits: Subreddit names or post URLs (can be used multiple times)
• -m, --ai-model: Choose AI model ('openai' or 'claude', default: 'openai')

Requirements

• Python 3.7+
• Beautiful Soup 4
• Click
• PRAW (Python Reddit API Wrapper)
• OpenAI API key
• Claude API key
• Reddit API credentials

Project Structure

• cli.py: Main CLI interface
• scraper.py: Website content scraper
• reddit_parser.py: Reddit content parser
• blog_generator.py: AI blog generation logic
• image_processor.py: Image processing and alt text generation

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Author

Victor Evogor

• Twitter: @victorevogor