https://github.com/ageitgey/medium_to_ghost
Instantly move all your Medium.com content (formatted posts + images) to an open source Ghost blog!
https://github.com/ageitgey/medium_to_ghost
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Instantly move all your Medium.com content (formatted posts + images) to an open source Ghost blog!
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ageitgey/medium_to_ghost
- Owner: ageitgey
- License: mit
- Created: 2018-08-29T04:17:35.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-01-04T10:29:42.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-15T20:45:33.768Z (6 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 27.3 KB
- Stars: 121
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 13
- Open Issues: 8
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Medium to Ghost 2.0
Feeling locked into Medium.com? Instantly move all your content (formatted posts + images) to an open source [Ghost 2.0](https://blog.ghost.org/2-0/) blog!
This code converts all your Medium.com posts to a Ghost 2.0.x import file. With that,
you can import all your content into a [Ghost](https://ghost.org/) blog (hosted anywhere) in seconds. Your posts keep
the same formatting and all your images are migrated over too.
## Why?
Medium.com is a nice platform for creating blog posts. I use it and enjoy it.
But you should never feel like your content is locked into someone else's privately-owned platform. This
gives you the option to move your content to your own blog if you want to do it. It's also a quick way
to back up all your Medium.com content (especially your images which they don't export) in case the site disappears
someday.
I hacked this together quickly to move my blog, [Machine Learning is Fun!](https://www.machinelearningisfun.com/) from
Medium to a self-hosted Ghost site. Hopefully it's useful to someone else too. More options is always good, right?
## Requirements
- A blog running Ghost v2.0.3+ (*NOT Ghost 1.x*). Both Self-hosted or professionally hosted Ghost instances are both
fine.
- A Medium.com account where you've previously written content.
- Python 3.6+ to run this program
## Installing this program
After you've [installed Python 3.6+](https://www.python.org/downloads/), you can install this program by opening up a
terminal window and running this command:
### Mac / Linux
```python
pip3 install medium_to_ghost
```
### Windows
```python
pip install medium_to_ghost
```
## How to use this to export your Medium content
1. Install [Python 3.6+](https://www.python.org/downloads/). Lower versions won't work!
1. Install this program (See "Installing this program")
1. Go to https://medium.com/me/settings and find `Download your information`. There's a button to export your data and
email it to you.
1. Wait for the email from Medium and download your zip file. This will give you a file called `medium-export.zip`
1. Run `python3 -m medium_to_ghost.medium_to_ghost medium-export.zip` which will produce `medium_export_for_ghost.zip`.
This new zip file contains all your converted Medium posts and images from your posts. Make sure to put the full path
to the zip file if it's not in the current directory. This may take a few minutes if you have lots of images
in your posts since they all have to be downloaded.
1. Go into Ghost 2.0.3+, navigate to /ghost/, click on 'Labs', and choose to import that zip file.
1. That's it!
## What gets moved over
When exporting content from Medium, the following features are supported:
- Both published articles and drafts are moved over. So even if you are in the middle of writing a new
post, it should be a seamless transition.
- Most Medium.com content is replicated perfectly in Ghost, including text formatting, embedded Github gists, image
cards with captions, Upscribe mailing list signup forms, etc.
- If your Medium posts have a featured image, that will come over automatically too.
## What is lost when moving over
- Comments are not moved over to Ghost
- Story highlights are not moved over to Ghost
- I tried to make the Ghost output as similar to Medium as possible. However, there may be bugs or types of
Medium content I haven't seen before, so always check the results in Ghost carefully. I just made sure it worked
for all my articles. No warranty! :)
## Warnings!
- Hopefully this code will work for you, but it may have bugs and cause your computer to explode. Make sure you
test everything out on a test Ghost instance before you import anything into a live blog.
- Starting with Ghost v2.17, you can set the canonical url of a post. This tool will attempt to automatically set
up the imported Ghost posts to point back to original Medium URLs to avoid any SEO impact of switching blogging platforms.
If you don't want your posts to point back to Medium, you will need to go in and remove the Canonical URL setting for
each imported post.
- Ghost 2.0.3+ has [a bug with image paths in import files](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/9821).
This tool may need to be updated when that bug is fixed in order for it to keep working, but it works
for now (Checked up to Ghost 2.18.3).