starblog-publisher 2.x Refactor

Preface

Recently I've been continuously refactoring StarBlog publisher. This article should have gone out two months ago, but I kept putting it off and forgot 😂

If I don't post this now, the brand-new UI 3.x is about to ship—better get this out quickly.

Open source: https://github.com/star-blog/starblog-publisher/tree/v2.3.4

New Architecture

To meet current Agent usage needs, a lot of GUI software is going fully "CLI-ified". In the 2.0 refactor, I also split the original StarBlog Publisher into multiple libraries: CLI, Core, GUI

Shared business logic was extracted into the Core package, and both CLI and GUI are built on top of Core.

I also provide Skill and MCP so Agents can use it—now you can publish an article with a single sentence inside an Agent.

Besides the architecture changes, a major new feature is WeChat article formatting. I'd already implemented this in the wechat-pub project, but that was a Python version that only exposed MCP for Agents to call, and it wasn't well integrated with the StarBlog workflow. This time they're connected, so publishing efficiency improved a bit.

CLI

The command-line tool supports the same features as the GUI.

dotnet run --project .\StarBlogPublisher.Cli   
Required command was not provided.

Description:
  StarBlog Publisher CLI - 博客发布命令行工具

Usage:
  StarBlogPublisher.Cli [command] [options]

Options:
  -?, -h, --help  Show help and usage information
  --version       Show version information

Commands:
  auth      认证管理
  category  分类管理
  post      文章管理
  ai        AI 辅助功能
  install   安装 StarBlog Publisher 的 skills 或 MCP 配置到 AI Agent

Main Interface

Enough talk—here's a screenshot.

Publish Result Screen

Added a publish result page so you can easily copy the URL and markdown.

Official Account Formatting & Publishing

You can configure WeChat Official Account details in the settings screen.

There's also a dedicated formatting screen. The 2.x version at the time lets you pick from 4 formatting themes; wechat-pub has 20+ in full, but this time I only ported a few commonly used ones.

Here's the formatted result.

New About Screen

This is just an update to the tech stack description. The icon hasn't been changed yet, so it still looks pretty ugly.

Wrap-up

That's it. There's a lot going on and it's easy to get spread thin. I had planned to ship a new version of StarBlog in this period as well, but development has been much slower than I expected.