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Introducing a new tool - How to back your DEV Post

Dhairya Shah on January 20, 2022

Hello folks 👋 What's up friends, this is SnowBit here. I am a passionate young developer having the intention to become a successful dev...

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Andy Piper • Jan 20 '22 • Edited

I can see how this could be a really useful tool for some people.

I noticed a few issues:

if the repository you specify for saving to does not exist, the backup fails, but the front-end reports that it was a success. The JS console shows the 404 error for the repository, though. There's no guidance text to say that the repository must already exist, the success message is not accurate, and no way to have the code create one without extending the PAT scopes.
this only backs up the markdown content of the post, not any attached media.
the file does not have a very identifiable name in the GitHub repository.

Also, I have some suggestions!

allow the repository to be created
allow this to backup all of my posts, not one-by-one (maybe use the Forem API, I don't know what the code is doing currently)

Maybe if you share the code on Gitlab or GitHub, others could help you out with some of these ideas.

Dhairya Shah • Jan 21 '22

managed to fix some of your suggested issues.

Thank you!

Dhairya Shah • Jan 20 '22

Thank you for feedback!
code is now public - github.com/codewithsnowbit/dev-backup

Feel free to contribute in the project 🙂

Andy Piper • Jan 20 '22

I'll take a look, thanks for sharing!

Dhairya Shah • Jan 20 '22

Sure!

Yoan • Jan 25 '22

Great project ! Could be cool if you could make a web extension to make the process even faster. Kinda like the Notion extension that allows you to save any webpage inside your notion database 👍