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Build an RSS feed from markdown blog posts in Python

Scans a folder of markdown files, extracts titles, dates, and excerpts, and generates a valid RSS 2.0 XML feed.

import re
from pathlib import Path
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element, SubElement, tostring
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from xml.dom import minidom

def build_rss(blog_dir, site_url="https://example.com"):
    feed = Element("rss", version="2.0")
    channel = SubElement(feed, "channel")
    SubElem…

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Automation & scripting easy

Convert Markdown to HTML in Python (Batch)

Convert every Markdown file in a directory to HTML with the Python markdown library, saving each result with an .html extension.

markdown html batch

Python

import markdown
from pathlib import Path


def convert_md_to_html(source_dir: str, dest_dir: str) -> list[str]:
    src = Path(source_dir)
    dst = Path(dest_dir)
    dst.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

    converted_files = []
    for md_file in src.glob("*.md"):
        html_content = markdown.markdown(md_file.…

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Automation & scripting medium

Generate Beautiful Project Documentation from Python Source Code Automatically

Automatically generate a markdown summary of function docstrings from any Python source file using the AST module.

ast automation documentation

Python

import ast
import inspect
from pathlib import Path

def extract_docstrings_from_file(filepath):
    """Parse a Python file and collect function docstrings."""
    source = Path(filepath).read_text()
    tree = ast.parse(source)

    docs = []
    for node in ast.walk(tree):
        if isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef…

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How to Cross Post Markdown to dev.to API in Python

A Python function that POSTs markdown content to the dev.to API and handles HTTP or URLError exceptions with mock API testing.

api dev.to markdown

Python

import json
from urllib import request, error


def cross_post_to_devto(markdown_content, api_key, devto_api_url="https://dev.to/api/articles"):
    """
    Mock cross-posting of markdown content to the dev.to API.
    Returns the API response or an error message.
    """
    payload = json.dumps({
        "article": …

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