lob-story

Post items to Lobste.rs

Installation

$ npm install --save lob-story

Usage

The example shown below will post a link on Lobste.rs.

var lob = require('lob-story');

lob({
  username: '{{your username}}',
  password: '{{your password}}',
  title: 'Example Blog Article',
  url: 'http://exampleblog.com/articles/example-blog-article'
}, done);

function done (err, res, body, story) {
  // handle response
}

API

lob(options, done)

Posts an article on Lobste.rs by making a series of requests against their website. Takes some options, detailed below.

Property	Description
username	Your username, used to authenticate, and to post stories on your behalf
password	Your password, used to authenticate
title	The title for the story
url	The URL to the story
description	A description of the story
author	Boolean value indicating whether the submitter is the author of the story

When the requests against Lobste.rs are done, the done callback will be invoked with four arguments.

• err will have an error if one occurred, and null otherwise
• res will be a response object
• body will be the response body
• story will be a link to the story on Lobste.rs

CLI

The CLI has a simple interface. You'll be asked for your credentials once, and they'll be stored at ~/.lob. You can edit that file directly, the CLI expects YAML.

$ cat ~/.lob

username: foo,
password: foo

$ lob -t "some title" -u http://exampleblog.com -x "some text"
> https://lobste.rs/s/$YOUR_STORY

CLI Usage

Usage:
  lob <options>

Options:
  -t, --title               | Title for the news item
  -u, --url, --uri          | URL to the news item
  -d, --desc, --description | Text describing the news item
  --tags                    | Space-separated list of tags for the story
  -a, --author, --no-author | Whether you\'re the author for the story

License

MIT