baudelaire 0.3.0

Take a poem and make it an Instagram post

Create Instagram posts from your plaintext poetry in seconds:

Installation

pip install baudelaire

Usage

baudelaire "<plaintext-input>" -o "<output-directory>" -c "<config>"

For example:

baudelaire -o "outputs" "$(cat "poem.txt")"
# OR:
baudelaire -o "outputs" -f poem.txt

[!note] The input is expected to be a plaintext poem, so you can write the contents directly in the command line or cat them from a plaintext file.

The text will be written to the specified output directory as poem_part-*.png files. There is a default configuration file which is distributed as a part of the package.

You can give it a try by using Dylan Thomas' Do not go gentle into that good night:

baudelaire -o "outputs" "$(cat "tests/rage.txt")"

File inputs

Plaintext

All plaintext files are read as-is using the basic f.read() facility in Python. This means that the entire contents of a .txt file will be parsed as a poem.

Markdown

[!warning] Because I personally put my poems in Obsidian and my template involves placing the actual contents of the poem into a markdown codeblock (``` code fences), this tool will parse all code fences and join them using \n\n.

Configuration

The default config is available in the repository under config/default.yaml. Check out the comments to understand what each configuration option does.

[!note] If you change the font you might need to tweak other parameters like the number of lines per board. It's recommended to create a separate config per template.