Medium automation with Puppeteer

medium-automate

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

async function republish() {
    const edit_url = "https://medium.com/p/96fe4266534f/edit"; // Replace this with your post edit path
    await page.goto(edit_url);
    await page.waitForSelector("p[name='a46a']");

    await page.$eval("p[name='a46a']", e => e.innerHTML = "The current time and date in NY city is "+(new Date()).toLocaleString('en-US', { timeZone: 'America/New_York' }));

    const sleep = require('util').promisify(setTimeout);
    await sleep(6000);
    await page.click("button[data-action='republish']");
};

let browser;
let page;
(async () => {
    try {
        browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: true, args: ["--no-sandbox"] });
        page = await browser.newPage();
        await page.setUserAgent('Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/88.0.4298.0 Safari/537.36');
        const token_url = "https://medium.com/m/callback/email?token="+process.env.LOGIN_TOKEN+"&operation=login&state=medium";
        await page.goto(token_url);
        await setInterval(republish, 1000 * 60 * 20); // every 20 minutes
        await page.waitForSelector("title");
    } catch (e) { console.log(e) };

})()