Publishing Blog Posts from Google Docs

Speaker 0: In this video, I'm going to show you how to use the Directus Content MCP server to upload blog posts to your CMS without any human intervention. This is gonna be so nice. Alright. So if you've ever been in content operations, you'll know that at some point, all roads lead to, from, around, in between Google Docs. Somebody drafts a piece of content, it winds up in a Google Doc, this is how we do all of our editing, suggesting, all of that.

Now, lots of problems with this workflow though. This has gotta make its way into a CMS at some point. So, somebody, probably you, gets tasked with filling out a bunch of different fields that you've got set up in your CMS and pasting this content. Now you've been here before. This sucks because Google Docs is adding a bunch of HTML formatting that we don't really need and it's gonna take me longer to clean up than actually to copy and paste this stuff.

So what's the better way, Bryant? Well, I'm about to show you. Let's take a look. I've got the Directus MCP server set up with Cloud Desktop. I've got the Google Drive integration already added to Cloud Desktop, super easy to add.

And we're just gonna lean on our friend, Cloud here. Hey. Will you please, always say please, add this as a draft post in my Directus CMS. Alright. So what is happening behind the scenes?

Claude should have access to my Directus instance. It's going to, call a system prompt and get the information that it needs to, help us. Then it should reach out and read the schema of our direct assistance. So no matter what schema you have, whether you have six different fields here, maybe yours is called the name of this post versus the title. The MCP server picks that up directly from your Directus instance, communicates that back to Claude.

So now we can see that he is putting together a post collection. Here's a draft post for our Google Doc. Cool. Looks like he is thinking about this, and we'll just, speed this up a little bit while we wait. Alright.

So now we can see that Claude is generating an item here, and we could see we've got a title. We've got a slug. We've got a description. We've got, a draft status. Then we've got our actual content, which it has correctly set up inside, HTML tags.

Despite, whatever format came out of Google Docs, right, we don't see any stray formatting that is going to mess up our page. So once he gets done with all of this, we should see a post inside our CMS. So here's the summary. I can click on this and open this link up. Now we can see we have this post.

We can see our content, and because I've got Directus set up with Live Preview, I can actually preview my content before it goes live, which is nice. But I also see that an image is missing, so, let's ask Claude to look for one that's appropriate. Can you please look through our directus assets and find an appropriate image. Gosh. I can't spell.

Alright. So now, again, one of the tools that the Directus Content MCP server has is the ability to access your files. Here are the most relevant options. We got UI design wireframing, a modern UI dashboard. K.

Let's go with that. Alright. And cool. So now it's updated our blog post for us with the image. Cool.

So there's our blog post with our content and our featured image, and that is just one workflow that is possible with the Directus Content MCP. Stay tuned for more videos in this series. Seriously, don't miss these. We'll see you next.