Pika

by Typora Team · v1.1.0 · updated Oct 30, 2026

Publish Markdown to Pika, update articles and query publication status.

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Permissions

When you install it, Typora asks you to allow it to:

Send and receive data from the server you enter in its Site option, https://pika.page.
Read the open document.

Sandboxed code. Runs code in a locked-down worker that can only use the API its permissions allow.

What it adds

Commands: Sign In to Pika, Sign Out of Pika, Publish to Pika…, Check Pika Publication
Settings: Site, App token
Window code: Runs in a sandboxed worker in each window.

Readme

Pika

Install this independent extension and enter Site and App token in its options, then run Publish to Pika…. Create it in Pika under Settings → App tokens.

Saving the options checks the key with Pika, so a wrong one shows up in the form. Because every publish needs it, it is then kept in your system's credential store: the Keychain on macOS, encrypted for your account on Windows, the desktop keyring on Linux. It never goes into your documents or Typora's settings, and it is sent only to pika.page. Sign Out of Pika deletes it from this computer; revoke it at the service as well if the computer is no longer yours. On Linux without a keyring, saving warns you first: see Publishing.

Adapter key: typora.pika:pika. The shared publish protocol handles incremental updates and remote conflict checks. Publication records are local to this Typora profile; back up ExtensionData to preserve associations. Use an explicit unique publish_id in front matter to retain identity across file moves. Without it, the absolute file path is the identity.

Capabilities: draft, media. Unsupported statistics or comments are reported as unsupported, never zero. Read-only detail retrieval is available through the adapter; a dedicated panel UI is not included in this extension.

The CLI requires a running desktop Typora with this extension enabled:

typora publish ./posts --to typora.pika:pika --dry-run
typora publish ./posts --to typora.pika:pika
typora publish status ./posts --to typora.pika:pika --refresh --json

Credentials and endpoint

In Pika, open Settings → App tokens and create a token with create/update/media access. Set Site to your actual blog URL (including your custom domain), not https://pika.page. Requests use the central Pika Micropub endpoints. See Pika Micropub.

Third-party code

vendor/marked.esm.js: marked 16.4.2, MIT; see vendor/LICENSE-marked.md. Used to discover local image references.