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Automating Multi-Platform Content Publishing with Craft and Cron
The author built a content automation pipeline that stages drafts in Craft before publishing to Substack, Medium, Bluesky, and Dev.to. Key updates include a timezone-aware cron scheduler and a revamped craft_publisher.py that handles document structuring and archiving. The system now auto-generates daily content with proper folder organization and platform-specific formatting.
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This is a practical, incremental improvement to a personal publishing workflow, but the architecture decisions—staging in a document database before API push—are broadly applicable for developers building similar pipelines.
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