This val will receive inbound emails and create a new Markdown file in a specified GitHub repository. Create drafts for your static site (or, for the bold, publish directly!) by simply sending an email!

Notes

• This script assumes you're using some kind of static site generator that can read from a GitHub repository. There are many to choose from in this space. I'm partial to 11ty
• Gmail is doing some heavy-lifting for me here in terms of kindly converting my HTML email to Markdown behind the scenes. It's not a guarantee all email providers do this. If yours does not, you may have to investigate an HTML-to-Markdown conversion step.
• We'll use the GitHub API via Octokit to create the file. You'll need to create a token and store it an an environmental variable in your Val Town settings.

Enjoy!
— George
https://george.mand.is/2024/09/using-email-and-val-town-to-draft-blog-posts/