Add author filter to add-author

TryGhost · Jan 20, 2025 · 9e8ebd5 · 9e8ebd5
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -359,6 +359,9 @@ gctools add-author --help
 
 # Add author with the slug 'michael' to the posts with the tag 'news` 
 gctools add-author <apiURL> <adminAPIKey> --tag 'news' --new_author 'michael'
+
+# For posts that have 'richard' as an author and with the tag 'news', add 'michael' as an author
+gctools add-author <apiURL> <adminAPIKey> --author 'richard' --tag 'news' --new_author 'michael'
 ```
 
 

diff --git a/commands/add-author.js b/commands/add-author.js
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ const setup = (sywac) => {
         defaultValue: false,
         desc: 'Show verbose output'
     });
+    sywac.string('--author', {
+        defaultValue: null,
+        desc: 'Current author slug'
+    });
     sywac.string('--tag', {
         defaultValue: null,
         desc: 'Select posts with these tag slugs, inside single quotes. i.e. \'existing-tag, newsletter\''

diff --git a/prompts/add-author.js b/prompts/add-author.js
@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ const choice = {
 
 const options = [
     ...ghostAPICreds,
+    {
+        type: 'list',
+        name: 'author',
+        message: 'Current Author:',
+        pageSize: 20,
+        choices: function () {
+            return getAPIAuthorsObj();
+        }
+    },
     {
         type: 'search-checkbox',
         name: 'tag',

diff --git a/tasks/add-author.js b/tasks/add-author.js
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ const getFullTaskList = (options) => {
                 try {
                     let discoveryFilter = [];
 
+                    if (ctx.args.author) {
+                        discoveryFilter.push(`author:[${ctx.args.author.slug}]`);
+                    }
+
                     if (ctx.args.tag && ctx.args.tag.length > 0) {
                         discoveryFilter.push(`tags:[${transformToCommaString(ctx.args.tag, 'slug')}]`);
                     }