GitHub Blogger

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GitHub Blogger is a VS Code extension for writing and managing blog posts via GitHub issue. It supports Markdown editing, live preview, and seamless publishing — all powered by GitHub.

In principle, it works with all VSCodium-based editors, such as Cursor, TRAE, Kiro and Google Antigravity.

Features

• Manage and publish blog posts via GitHub issue
• GitHub-native interaction experience
• Markdown editing with live preview and plugin support (Math, Mermaid, etc.)
• Free image hosting support: images are stored in your blog repository and served via jsDelivr CDN
• All posts and edit history (as Git commits) are stored in your blog repository

[!IMPORTANT] Your blog repository must be public for jsDelivr CDN to work (why, set visibility)

Quick Start

1. Create a GitHub account (skip if you already have one)
2. Create a public repository (skip if you want to use an existing repository)
3. Generate a GitHub Personal Access Token (classic) and select at least the public_repo scope
4. Install the GitHub Blogger extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace or Open VSX
5. Open the command palette (Cmd + Shift + P / Ctrl + Shift + P), search for Configure GitHub Blogger to set up
6. Then run Open GitHub Blogger and start writing

Update Configuration

To update extension settings, run Configure GitHub Blogger on command palette or edit your settings.json.

Example:

{
  "github-blogger.token": "your-github-token",
  "github-blogger.user": "your-github-username",
  "github-blogger.repo": "your-github-repo",
  "github-blogger.branch": "main"
}

GitHub PAT

This extension requires a GitHub Personal Access Token (classic) with at least one of the following scopes:

• public_repo - minimum required scope when using a public repository (issues, labels, contents/git, etc.)
• repo - only needed if you plan to access or create a private repository

Notes

• Posts and images are stored under archives and images in your blog repository
• The working branch is configured via github-blogger.branch, with main as the default. In most cases, you do not need to change it. If the branch does not exist, post/image storage may fail, and images in posts may not display correctly

Previews

Acknowledgements

This project is built upon and inspired by the open-source community, including:

• Aaronphy/Blogger Project inspiration
• @octokit/core GitHub's official SDKs
• @primer/react GitHub's official UI components
• @tomjs/vite-plugin-vscode VS Code extension tooling
• bytemd Markdown editor
• jsDelivr Free CDN service

Related Projects

• github-issue-toc Generate a table of contents for GitHub issue

License

MIT License © Frankie