JAP

An automation tool for creating draft posts on Wordpress using Rest API. It also supports automated compilation of HTML newsletter emails, Whatsapp Messages (to be used by User in later time) & facebook scheduling of posts with help of published posts & it's excerpt.

Configuration

Installing dependencies

Run the setup.py script.

(When using this for the first time after clonning)

1. Create a jap_config.json file in article_publishing/Config folder with following content:

       {
   
           "client_key": <client key>,
   
           "client_secret": <client secret>,
   
           "google_api_key": <google_api_key>,
   
           "google_project_cx": "<search_engine_ID>"
   
       }
   

2. Run authorize.py from JAP_Utilities/JAP_Authentication folder and then follow the instructions.

3. Once done, check the jap_config.json again, it should now have resource_owner_key and resource_owner_secret keys.

4. Done! You are all set now.

Creating draft posts

1. Create issue_params.json if not already present in the root folder where create_post.py is present and update the fields accordingly:

       {
   
           "summaryfile" : "path/to/summaryfile",
   
           "articles_folder_path" : "path/to/articles/folder",
   
           "images_folder_path" : "path/to/images/folder",
   
           "publish_date" : "YYYY-MM-DD",
   
           "print_edition_articles" : [<print edition first article number>,<print edition last article number>],
   
           "blog_edition_articles" : [<blog edition first article number>,<blog edition last article number>],
   
           "volume_number": "Volume Number",
   
           "issue_number" : "Issue Number",
   
   
       }
   

   Note :

   • summaryfile : Full path to summary.docx file.
   • articles_folder_path : Full path to the folder containing only articles files for the current issue.
   • images_folder_path : Full path to the folder containing only images for the current issue.
   • publish_date : Issue date in YYYY-MM-DD format
   
   

   Important:

   1. Name of the images should be the article number e.g 1.png/1.jpeg.

   2. If runnig the script in Windows machine, replace '\' with '/' in the all the folder/file paths.

   3. All .doc files should be converted to .docx file. This script won't work on .doc files.

2. Run create_post.py