How to Schedule a Blog Post on Hashnode

Everyone has been asking this for a very long time. In today’s blog, I will show you how you can schedule a blog to be released on hashnode.

This is not an official way.

This is going to be a step by step guide. Please follow along to make sure you don’t miss something.

Connect your GitHub repo with Hashnode

Go to the integrations tab on your blog’s dashboard.
Now click on Connect Hashnode App on Github under Publish articles from GitHub. It will take you to the GitHub apps page where you need to press install. Configure your blog repo from where you want to publish your articles.

Installing the Hashnode GitHub app for one repository

I am only giving access to only one repo because I don’t want to expo all of the repo to hashnode. You can also choose to do the same if you don’t want to give access to all the GitHub repositories to hashnode.

Install PR Scheduler on your GitHub repository

PR scheduler is a Github App that allows you to schedule your PR requests to be merged at a specific date and time. To use this app you have to first connect it to your GitHub repo.
Go to the PR Scheduler website and click install. Then follow the instructions to connect the app. The video below shows the process.

Installing and configuring PR Scheduler

Again, I am restricting the access of this app to a single repository.

Once you have done the above two steps we are ready to schedule our PR.

Schedule the blog pull request with PR Scheduler

First create a pull request for the post: write it locally, push it to a branch, and open the pull request. Read Hashnode’s guide to using a GitHub repository as an article source for more detail.

Pull request containing a draft Hashnode article

Once you have created the pull request, type @prscheduler <date-time>. For example, @prscheduler 25/10/2020T18:13:41 schedules it for 18:13:41 UTC on 25 October 2020. See the PR Scheduler documentation for more details.

PR Scheduler command added to a pull request

After this, your blog will be scheduled to be merged at the specified time. Once it gets merged, it will be visible on your hashnode blog.

Conclusion

This is a small hack put together by me to schedule my blog post. A huge thanks to hashnode team for enabling the GitHub integration for publishing the blogs. I hope they will soon support the schedule post out of the box.