Blog counter for a Publication

Ashok Be
Professional Pirates
2 min readJan 20, 2018

It is a good habit to write as often as possible on your personal blog. Write about anything that is of interest to you. It could be your progress towards a goal that you have set for yourself.

Manivasakam R of KGISL IIM (http://www.kgisliim.ac.in/) has developed a nice Blog Counter over at http://cbcounter.herokuapp.com/. His counter generates a report on the number of blogs made by each contributor to a common blog.

Take a look at it, remix his code and give it a twist of your own!

Only recently, Medium has started to open up its API and allow for integration. Read up more on this at https://venturebeat.com/2015/10/07/medium-opens-up-publishing-api-adds-wordpress-plugin-and-adds-new-content-partners/

Counter for blog entries in a common medium publication.

Suggestions for Enhancement

Two enhancement ideas to the existing blog counter
1. Sort the list of bloggers based on their count (so it becomes a Blog Ladder)
2. Every week, generate this report and automatically post it to the common blog using the medium API
3. Automate Step 2 — is it even possible?

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Ashok Be
Professional Pirates

Entrepreneur, struggle-to-code evangelist, paradox collector, green tea and black coffee enthusiast. And yes, squash!