Now you can create article via cli!

pelican/tools/pelican_article.py

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import shutil
+import sys
+import datetime
+
+from pelican.utils import slugify
+from pelican.tools.pelican_import import build_markdown_header, build_header
+
+
+def create_template(args):
+
+    if not os.path.exists(args.path):
+        try:
+            os.mkdir(args.path)
+        except OSError:
+            error = 'Unable to create the output folder: ' + args.path
+            exit(error)
+
+    title =  args.title.decode('utf-8')
+    slug = slugify(title)
+    date = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
+    categories = args.categories.split('\W+') if args.categories else None
+    tags = args.tags.split('\W+') if args.tags else None
+
+    if (args.markup == 'markdown') or (args.markup == 'md') :
+        ext = '.md'
+        header = build_markdown_header(title, date, args.author, categories, tags, slug)
+    else:
+        ext = '.rst'
+        header = build_header(title, date, args.author, categories, tags, slug)
+
+    filename = os.path.join(args.path, slug+ext) 
+    header = header.encode('utf-8')
+
+    with open(filename, 'w') as fs:
+        fs.write(header)
+
+    print 'Article template create in "%s"' % filename
+
+
+def main():
+
+    argv = sys.argv[1:]
+    argv.append('-h') if len(argv) == 0 else None
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Create article with templation')
+
+    parser.add_argument('title', help='article title')
+    parser.add_argument('-a', '--author', dest='author', default='[name]', help='Article author')
+    parser.add_argument('-t', '--tags', dest='tags', default=None, help='Article tags(separated by comma)')
+    parser.add_argument('-c', '--categories', dest='categories', default=None, help='Article categories')
+    parser.add_argument('-s', '--slug', dest='slug', default=None, help='Article slug')
+    parser.add_argument('-p', '--path', dest='path', default='content/posts', help='Article save directory')
+    parser.add_argument('-m', '--markup', dest='markup', default='md', help='Article markup format (supports rst & markdown)')
+    args = parser.parse_args(argv)
+
+    create_template(args);
+
+

setup.py

@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ entry_points = {
         'pelican = pelican:main',
         'pelican-import = pelican.tools.pelican_import:main',
         'pelican-quickstart = pelican.tools.pelican_quickstart:main',
-        'pelican-themes = pelican.tools.pelican_themes:main'
+        'pelican-themes = pelican.tools.pelican_themes:main',
+        'pelican-article = pelican.tools.pelican_article:main'
    ]
 }