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I am publishing a newsletter about Ruby https://newsletter.shortruby.com https://newsletter.shortruby.com, and I am trying to automate part of my process to foc
by gls2ro 4y ago
I am publishing a newsletter about Ruby https://newsletter.shortruby.com https://newsletter.shortruby.com, and I am trying to automate part of my process to focus more on curating the content.
My process looks like this:
1. I have a list of tweets and Reddit posts that I gather during the week. This list is sending self-DMs on Twitter or Telegram
2. I have a Ruby on Rails app that will read the tweets and posts and will save them in the local DB
3. I browse the list of things, and I have a simple button, "Hide" that I press to remove what I don't want to include
4. Now comes the more manual part
4.1 I click to open each Tweet (mostly) or Reddit post and then I take a screenshot of that Tweet
4.2 Then I transform the screenshot (like resize) to fit the Substack (my newsletter is hosted there)
4.3 Then I drag and drop the screenshot in Substack, and I add a caption (where I specify the source) and alt for the image
So far, I managed to write an apple script that automated 4.2, but I am trying to find a way to take the screenshot automatically so I am playing a bit with headless browsers.