gmb - The Go Media Bot

Automates monotone media handling when writing blog posts with a static site generator such as hugo.

gmb creates directory structure, copies and resizes images and create a stub blog post containing tags for all your images.

Usage scenario

• You want to write a blog post containing lots of pictures using hugo
• You keep you original pictures in full resolution in a separate directory somewhere.
• You want to generate smaller versions of the pictures and output them to a suitable folder in your hugo source tree such as: "static/images/slug/"
• You want to generate a stub blog post such as "content/stub.md" containing the front matter and image tags for all your images (or audio/pdfs etc.).

What you do

• You create a config file in the same folder as your originals.

config.yaml

base_dir: /home/username/hugosite/src # The path to your hugo site source.
slug: awesome-post                    # The slug you want your post to have.
img_limit: 1000                       # The resoultion limit as a square, defaults to 800x800 pixels.

then you run gmb config.yaml

gmb will then do the following:

• go through the folder containing the config file and makes a record of all files there. gmb determines which static folder to output the files to and if they should be processed as images or just copied.
• create /home/username/hugosite/src/static/images/awesome-post
• process all images in original folder and resize and save the output in the static/images/awesome-post folder. The process strips the exif information but rotates the image if needed.
• create /home/username/hugosite/src/content/awesome-post.md
• populate the post with frontmatter and image tags for all the processed images. Anything else than images will get a regular link tag.