tuipub

A terminal Micropub client for posting notes to your IndieWeb site. It logs in with IndieAuth and is built with Rust and Ratatui. It's developed against StarPunk, but sticks to the spec, so other Micropub servers should work too.

Install

cargo install --path .

Use

tuipub login example.com   # opens your browser to approve access
tuipub                     # write and publish a note
tuipub whoami              # show the account and endpoints
tuipub logout              # revoke the token and forget the account

Running tuipub with no account starts the login flow first.

Keys

Key	Action
Tab / Shift-Tab	Next / previous field
Ctrl-S	Publish (asks to confirm)
Ctrl-R	Reload crosspost targets from the server
Ctrl-O	Open the last published post
Esc / Ctrl-Q	Quit (asks if there's unpublished text)
↑ ↓ / j k, Space, a	Crosspost list: move, toggle, all/none

Content is sent as written (Markdown for StarPunk). Tags are comma-separated, and a leading # is dropped.

How it works

• Discovery: reads rel="micropub" and rel="indieauth-metadata" from your site's Link headers and HTML. If there's no metadata link, it falls back to authorization_endpoint / token_endpoint.
• Login: authorization code flow with PKCE (S256). tuipub runs a one-shot callback server on 127.0.0.1:<random port> and uses http://127.0.0.1:<port>/ as its client_id. The client ID and redirect URI share an origin, so the server needs no client registration. It checks state and iss. Scopes requested: create media.
• Token storage: the system keyring (Secret Service / gnome-keyring), keyed by your profile URL. Account settings go in ~/.config/tuipub/config.toml.
• Posting: always sends a JSON body. mp-syndicate-to lists exactly the checked targets, and an empty list means "crosspost nowhere". If the target list can't be loaded, mp-syndicate-to is left out and the server's default applies (the confirm dialog says so).

Environment

• TUIPUB_TOKEN: use this token instead of the keyring (e.g. one made in StarPunk's /admin/tokens).
• TUIPUB_CONFIG_DIR: use a different config directory (handy for dev servers).

StarPunk notes

• StarPunk 2.3.3+ stores the Title as the note's # Heading first line. Older versions ignore it, so on those, start the note with # Heading instead.
• Editing, deleting and listing posts aren't supported yet, because StarPunk's Micropub endpoint doesn't implement update, delete or q=source listing.

Develop

cargo test
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings

To try it against a local StarPunk, start it with DEV_MODE=true, SITE_URL/ADMIN_ME/DEV_ADMIN_ME=http://127.0.0.1:8099/, then run TUIPUB_CONFIG_DIR=/tmp/tp tuipub login 127.0.0.1:8099. Bare localhost / 127.* addresses default to http://.