How I Wired Up Fully-Automated Cross-Posting Between Blogger and dev.to (With Working Code)
The last two posts on this blog went out through a pipeline I built specifically so I wouldn't have to manually copy-paste content between platforms. Here's the actual setup, in case you're trying to do the same thing. The goal One command, two platforms: publish to Blogger (where this blog actually lives) and have it show up on dev.to at the same time, without dev.to's copy counting against the…
A system was designed to automatically post content simultaneously to two blogging platforms without duplicating the original source material. Blogger's API was utilized for the first platform, requiring a browser login to obtain a refresh token for authentication. Dev.to was accessed through its own REST API, which required a personal API key for authentication.
The canonical URL of the dev.to post was set to point back to the original Blogger post, which helped prevent search engines from considering both posts as duplicate content. A publish script handled the process, first posting to Blogger, then immediately posting the same content to dev.to with the Blogger URL as the canonical URL.
This method allowed for one command to publish to both platforms, avoiding manual copy-paste and reducing the chance of forgetting to update one platform after editing the other. If using Markdown instead of HTML in the future, the script would need to be adjusted to accommodate dev.to's preferred native format.
Written by urgent.news from Dev.to's reporting — not their text. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
