Futurepub

Using Futurepub

Futurepub provides an easy way to schedule a post to be published to any Micropub endpoint at a future date and time. To use Futurepub, simply treat Futurepub as a Micropub endpoint via https://futurepub.cleverdevil.io. Futurepub only supports JSON style Micropub requests.

As part of your JSON payload, you must include two properties: mp-destination, which should be the endpoint that you want to publish to, and published, which will be the date/time stamp that specifies when you want to publish.

For authentication, simply pass the Bearer Token for your target Micropub endpoint in an Authorization HTTP header.

Sample

If you wanted to publish "Hello, World" content to a Micropub endpoint available at https://example.com/micropub with a Bearer token of XXXXXXXX on January 20th, 2040, at 12:00 UTC, you would send the following HTTP request:

POST /micropub HTTP/1.1
Host: futurepub.cleverdevil.io
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Bearer XXXXXXXX

{
  "type": ["h-entry"],
  "properties": {
    "name": ["Test Post from Futurepub"],
    "content": [{
      "html": "Hello, World!" 
    }],
    "published": [
      "2040-01-20T12:00:00"
    ],
    "mp-destination": [
      "https://example.com/micropub"
    ]
  }
}
      

How Does it Work?

Futurepub does lightweight validation on the data passed to it, and then stores the JSON payload along with the Bearer token in a secure Amazon S3 bucket. A scheduled operation then checks the S3 bucket periodically (currently, every five minutes), and then sends publish operations as needed.

The source code for Futurepub is available on GitHub. Futurepub is built as a WSGI application using the Pecan web framework and then deployed to AWS Lambda as a serverless application using Zappa.