Ask HN: Are you testing grammar in CI/CD of your blog?

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Does anyone have a test pipeline that checks grammar, link correctness, or other parts of the content of their blog posts? I'm thinking about adding some tests on mine and was wondering what existing setups people have.

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I have once started to add checks for that in my CI/CD.

I used a self hosted instance of LanguageTool [1] (they also have a free API plan).

For checking links I used something self build. It checked all links (including in already published articles), archived them via archive.org and if they changed (e.g. offline) link the archive.org link.

After publishing, I also send the published article to archive.org and published links to social media platforms. Back then I also thought of publishing parts of the articles automatically to dev.to, medium etc. but never went through with it.

[1] https://dev.languagetool.org/http-server

Thanks, that's quite similar to what I have in mind. When using LanguageTool, how did you deal false flags from the checker?

If your setup is open-source, feel free to drop a link.

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