Zapier, and better link sourcing

Quick updates

July 21, 2024

Motivation

The last update introduced webhooks, where any site owner can now connect with Wraith Scribe to automatically publish to their website.

But not everyone can code and implement this easily.

To make this more accessible I wanted a NoCode solution.

Zapier

That's why the past 2 weeks I made Wraith Scribe be able to talk to Zapier. So, if you have a Zapier account, you can easily hook up your account to Zapier. As the process to get an actual app to Zapier is impossible, as they only accept popular apps and this is a small indie project, the workaround is just:

  1. When an article completes, it'll email you a specially formatted email.
  2. Zapier will parse the email.
  3. You can use the parsed email fields to publish to wherever you want: AirTable, Ghost, and any other CMS that Zapier supports.

Sound complicated? It's not, though it is a fair amount of buttons to click. No worries though because I literally walk you through every single button to click in this 10 minute tutorial here.

Better Linking

Prior, Wraith Scribe worked like this:

  1. Write articles with links
  2. It goes to Mochi Human Text to get humanized.
  3. Publish the article

However, in step 2, some of the alt text of the links might get mangled. Making step 2 retry over and over again, causing our servers money, and making it slower for you to get to the 'publish' step.

Now, it works like this:

  1. Write articles without links.
  2. Humanize the text with Mochi
  3. Add the links back in
  4. Publish the article

The AI, having the final article before adding links in, seems to perform quicker, and more accurately as well.

There are still some further improvements to be made with this (i.e. preferentially attaching links and citing numerical data as opposed to qualitative data) though.