emdash-to-buffer

EmDash plugin that queues first-time published posts entries to Buffer.

This plugin is under active development. It is currently only confirmed to work with LinkedIn, Google Business, and Facebook. If you use another channel and hit an error, please open an issue on GitHub. Contributions are welcome.

Features

• Publish-only trigger for posts
• Multi-channel fan-out
• Automatic channel discovery from your Buffer account
• Settings UI with discoverable channel table and on/off channel toggles
• Delivery log table (latest attempts) with clear-log action
• Template tags: {title}, {excerpt}, {url} on separate lines by default
• Canonical URL fallback to /posts/{slug}
• Featured image fallback to Open Graph image
• Retries on transient API failures

Install

pnpm add emdash-to-buffer-plugin

Usage

import { defineConfig } from "astro/config";
import emdash from "emdash";
import { emdashToBufferPlugin } from "emdash-to-buffer-plugin";

export default defineConfig({
  integrations: [
    emdash({
      plugins: [emdashToBufferPlugin()],
    }),
  ],
});

Native installs can import emdash-to-buffer-plugin/native as a ready-to-use native plugin export.

Configure plugin settings in EmDash admin (Plugins -> emdash-to-buffer -> Settings):

• Buffer access token
• Discover channels and toggle enabled channels
• View recent delivery attempts and clear the log
• Message template
• Enable/disable switch

Development

pnpm install
pnpm test
pnpm build