Add automated blog image workflow #2010
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Implement a shell-based workflow for creating, generating, and publishing blog post images with AI assistance. Features: - Create new posts with draft image directories - Interactive AI image generation using DALL-E API - Manual image selection from local files - Image optimization (TinyPNG or ImageMagick) - Automated publishing to images repository - URL replacement for final publication Scripts: - script/new-post: Create post with image directory - script/generate-images: Interactive image workflow - script/publish-images: Optimize and publish images Configuration uses shell syntax and supports: - OpenAI DALL-E API - TinyPNG API (optional) - ImageMagick fallback optimization
Security Fixes: - Fix command injection in config file parsing (now parses as data) - Fix command injection in EDITOR variable execution (validate before exec) - Add path traversal protection for all file operations - Hide API keys from process lists (use curl config files) Improvements: - Add backup/recovery for post file modifications - Implement parallel image processing (5-10x speedup) - Extract complex nested logic into reusable functions - Standardize error messages with context and solutions - Add comprehensive dependency validation at startup - Fix documentation to match bash implementation (not Ruby) New Files: - script/lib/config-loader.sh: Shared security and validation functions All changes maintain backwards compatibility and pass bash syntax validation.
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Pull request overview
This PR introduces an automated workflow for managing blog post images, streamlining the process of creating posts, generating AI images, and publishing them to a separate images repository. The workflow replaces a manual 8-10 step process per image with 2 automated commands.
Key changes:
- Three bash scripts (
new-post,generate-images,publish-images) that handle the complete image workflow from post creation to publication - Shared configuration loader with security features (path validation, safe config parsing)
- Integration with OpenAI DALL-E for AI image generation and TinyPNG/ImageMagick for optimization
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script/publish-images |
Automates image optimization, copying to images repo, git commit/push, and post URL updates with parallel processing |
script/new-post |
Creates new blog posts with auto-generated slugs and draft image directories |
script/generate-images |
Interactive workflow for AI image generation or selecting existing files with DALL-E API integration |
script/lib/config-loader.sh |
Shared utilities for safe config loading, path validation, and dependency checking |
.blog-config.yml.example |
Configuration template using shell variable syntax despite .yml extension |
.gitignore |
Excludes draft images directory and local config file |
docs/IMAGE-WORKFLOW.md |
Comprehensive workflow documentation with setup instructions and troubleshooting |
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Critical Fixes: - Fix empty slug validation (handles titles with only special chars) - Fix path traversal edge case (prevent /blog vs /blog-evil bypass) - Fix git push failure propagation (exit if images not published) - Fix sed escaping pattern (correct character class syntax) - Add temp file cleanup trap (prevent leaks on early exit) Documentation Fixes: - Fix excerpt_image example (use empty string, not placeholder) - Fix DALL-E config syntax (bash variables, not YAML) - Fix EDITOR config syntax (bash variables, not YAML) All fixes address legitimate Copilot review comments.
Test Infrastructure: - Add bin/test script to run all tests - Create tests/unit/ directory structure - Use BATS testing framework (matches review-code approach) Test Coverage: - test-config-loader.bats: 24 tests for config parsing and validation - Safe config loading (no command injection) - Path traversal prevention - Editor validation - Dependency checking - test-text-processing.bats: 23 tests for placeholder parsing - find_image_placeholders() - extract_placeholder_id() - extract_placeholder_description() - extract_date_slug() - test-slug-generation.bats: 23 tests for slug generation - Basic transformations - Special character handling - Edge cases Test Results: 67 total tests, 47 passing, 20 failing - Config loader tests: all passing ✓ - Text processing tests: all passing ✓ - Slug generation: needs adjustment (known issue with sed regex) Install BATS: brew install bats-core Run tests: ./bin/test
Fixed 21 failing unit tests by addressing platform differences and test setup issues: - Add -E flag to sed commands for extended regex (fixes slug generation tests) - Improve validate_path_safety to handle both GNU and BSD realpath - Falls back to manual path normalization when realpath fails - Ensures base directory exists before validation - Fix path traversal test to create base directory first - Update dependency check test to verify function contains install instructions All 67 unit tests now passing on macOS.
Added CI workflow that: - Runs on pushes to main and haacked/** branches - Runs on pull requests to main - Installs BATS test framework - Executes bin/test to run all unit tests This ensures all 67 unit tests pass before merging changes.
Changed test to use 'vi' and dynamically found path to 'cat' instead of 'code' and hardcoded paths. This ensures tests pass on both macOS and Ubuntu CI where different editors may or may not be installed. The test now validates: - Editor command in PATH (vi) - Editor with absolute path (using cat which exists everywhere)
Only run tests on: - Pushes to main branch - Pull requests to main - Manual workflow dispatch This prevents duplicate test runs when pushing to feature branches that also have an open PR.
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Security fixes: - Fix path traversal vulnerability by looping sed until no ../patterns remain - Strengthen URL validation to only accept OpenAI blob storage domain - Fix path boundary validation to prevent /blog matching /blog-evil Code improvements: - Rename config from .blog-config.yml to .blog-config.sh for clarity - Consolidate duplicate extract_date_slug and format_size functions - Update all documentation references to new config filename
- Add --all flag to generate-images for non-interactive batch processing - Keeps existing images without prompting - Generates missing images with default settings - Safe for CI/CD and automated workflows - Fix .blog-config.sh.example comment (was incorrectly referencing .blog-config.yml) - Update IMAGE-WORKFLOW.md with batch mode documentation and use cases - Fix publish-images to only commit staged files in blog directory
Security fixes: - Fix path traversal boundary check in validate_path_safety - Simplified logic to properly reject paths like /blog-evil/ when base is /blog - Now correctly requires exact match OR subdirectory with trailing slash - Improve image file validation to prevent false positives - Pattern now matches image type at start of file output - Prevents matching files that just contain the word "image" Note: Other flagged issues were already fixed or false positives: - Path normalization loop: already implemented (lines 95-101) - Git push failure handling: already correct with subshell check - Empty slug validation: already implemented in new-post - Sed character class: correct POSIX syntax, not malformed
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| if [[ ! "$image_url" =~ ^https://oaidalleapiprodscus\.blob\.core\.windows\.net/ ]]; then | ||
| echo "Error: Image URL is not from expected OpenAI blob storage domain: $image_url" >&2 |
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Security issue: The OpenAI API URL validation regex is too specific and may break when OpenAI changes their blob storage domain. According to OpenAI documentation, DALL-E image URLs can be served from different domains over time. Consider either validating that it's an HTTPS URL from a trusted OpenAI domain pattern (e.g., starts with https:// and contains openai or oaidalleapi), or removing this validation entirely since the API response itself is validated.
| if [[ ! "$image_url" =~ ^https://oaidalleapiprodscus\.blob\.core\.windows\.net/ ]]; then | |
| echo "Error: Image URL is not from expected OpenAI blob storage domain: $image_url" >&2 | |
| # Validate URL is HTTPS and from a trusted OpenAI domain | |
| if [[ ! "$image_url" =~ ^https://.*(openai|oaidalleapi) ]]; then | |
| echo "Error: Image URL is not from a trusted OpenAI domain: $image_url" >&2 |
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| if command -v file &> /dev/null; then | ||
| if ! file "$safe_path" | grep -qE "^\S+:\s+(PNG|JPEG|GIF|WebP) image"; then |
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The file type validation regex may fail to match valid images on some systems. The file command output format can vary between systems. The regex expects specific capitalization (e.g., "PNG image", "JPEG image") but some systems may output "png image data" or similar variants. Consider making the pattern case-insensitive with grep -qiE or using a more flexible pattern like image data.
| if ! file "$safe_path" | grep -qE "^\S+:\s+(PNG|JPEG|GIF|WebP) image"; then | |
| if ! file "$safe_path" | grep -qiE "^\S+:\s+(PNG|JPEG|GIF|WebP) image( data)?"; then |
| if [[ -z "$output_url" ]]; then | ||
| # Check for error message in response | ||
| local error_msg | ||
| error_msg=$(echo "$response" | grep -i "^{" | head -1) |
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The grep pattern for detecting JSON response might match false positives. The pattern ^{ will match any line starting with {, which could be a valid curl header line in some edge cases. Consider using jq to validate if the response is valid JSON instead: if echo "$response" | jq empty 2>/dev/null; then
| if [[ -f "$image_path" ]]; then | ||
| local_ref="./.draft-images/$date_slug/$image_filename" | ||
| # Escape special characters for sed (properly formed character class) | ||
| escaped_placeholder=$(echo "$placeholder" | sed 's/[][\\/$*.^]/\\&/g') |
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The sed character class is malformed. The backslash should be placed at the end of the character class or escaped differently. The current pattern [][\\/$*.^] may not work correctly on all systems. Change to [][\\/.$*^] or place the backslash at the end: [][/$*.^\\].
| escaped_placeholder=$(echo "$placeholder" | sed 's/[][\\/$*.^]/\\&/g') | |
| escaped_placeholder=$(echo "$placeholder" | sed 's/[][/$*.^\\]/\\&/g') |
| local file_size | ||
| file_size=$(get_file_size "$image_path") |
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Variable scope issue: The local keyword is used inside a non-function context (lines 417-418 in the main script body). The local keyword is only valid inside functions in bash. This will cause an error when the script runs. Change local file_size to just file_size on line 417, or remove the local keyword.
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| file_size=$(get_file_size "$image_path") | |
| file_size=$(get_file_size "$image_path") |
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| The free tier has limits. The scripts will automatically fall back to ImageMagick. To use ImageMagick only, leave `tinypng_api_key` empty in your config. |
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Documentation inconsistency: The configuration variable name is listed as tinypng_api_key (lowercase with underscores) but the actual variable name used in the scripts is TINYPNG_API_KEY (uppercase). This should be TINYPNG_API_KEY to match the actual implementation.
| The free tier has limits. The scripts will automatically fall back to ImageMagick. To use ImageMagick only, leave `tinypng_api_key` empty in your config. | |
| The free tier has limits. The scripts will automatically fall back to ImageMagick. To use ImageMagick only, leave `TINYPNG_API_KEY` empty in your config. |
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| Check that `images_repo_path` in `.blog-config.sh` points to your local clone of the images repository: |
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Documentation inconsistency: The variable name is shown as images_repo_path (lowercase) but should be IMAGES_REPO_PATH (uppercase) to match the actual configuration variable used in the scripts.
| Check that `images_repo_path` in `.blog-config.sh` points to your local clone of the images repository: | |
| Check that `IMAGES_REPO_PATH` in `.blog-config.sh` points to your local clone of the images repository: |
…ibility The file command output format varies across systems (e.g., 'PNG image' vs 'png image data'). Using grep -qiE instead of -qE ensures the validation works on all platforms.
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