Use WP-CLI on Laravel/Valet to generate some dummy content with featured images

generate-dummy-posts-with-featured-images.sh

#! /bin/bash

# Author: Birgit Olzem aka @CoachBirgit
# Version: 1.0
# Created on: January 19th 2022
# Requires WP-CLI, cURL, wget

### How to use
# Use WP-CLI on Laravel/Valet to generate some dummy content. 
# We grab from the loremipsum.net API some dummy content.
# We call the Unsplash API via picsum.photos for random featured images with the image specs w1920, h1200, random, grayscale.
# Create a local folder where you want to download the images from Unsplash and adjust the path.
# run the script from your site creation script or from the WordPress instance you are working on

### let the magic happen!

# Generate some posts with lorem ipsum content
echo "Generate some posts"
curl http://loripsum.net/api/5 | wp post generate --post_content --count=10
sleep 1m

# Download random images from Unsplash into a local folder, import them and set each as featured image related to the post
echo "Get POST_ID, download image and set it as featured image"
GET_POST_ID="$(wp post list --post_type=post --field=ID --format=csv)"

for post_id in ${GET_POST_ID[0]}; do
    wget https://picsum.photos/1920/1200/\?random\&grayscale -O ~/Sites/picsum/unsplash_$post_id.jpg;
    sleep 1m
    wp media import ~/Sites/picsum/unsplash_$post_id.jpg --post_id=$post_id --title="A dummy picture for $post_id" --featured_image
done