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https://github.com/imbios/blogger-to-md
Convert Blogger & WordPress backup blog posts to markdown documents
https://github.com/imbios/blogger-to-md
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Convert Blogger & WordPress backup blog posts to markdown documents
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/imbios/blogger-to-md
- Owner: ImBIOS
- License: mit
- Created: 2022-12-27T09:19:03.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-04-29T09:51:04.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-14T03:49:17.171Z (2 months ago)
- Topics: blogger, converter, hacktoberfest, hugo, markdown, tool, wordpress
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 30.3 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Blogger to Markdown
Convert Blogger & WordPress backup blog posts to hugo compatible markdown documents
Usage: node index.js b|w
For Blogger imports, blog posts and comments (as seperate file `-comments.md`) will be created in "`out`" directory
```
node index.js b your-blogger-backup-export.xml out
```
For WordPress imports, blog posts and comments (as seperate file `-comments.md`) will be created in "`out`" directory
```
node index.js w your-wordpress-backup-export.xml out
```
If you want the comments to be merged in your post file itself. you can use flag `m` at the end. Defaults to `s` for seperate comments file
```
node index.js w your-wordpress-backup-export.xml out m
```
If converting from WordPress, and you have posts that do not contain HTML, you can use a `paragraph-fix` flag at the end.
```
node index.js w your-wordpress-backup-export.xml out m paragraph-fix
```
## Installation (usual node project)
* Download or Clone this project
* `cd` to directory
* Run `npm install` to install dependencies
* Run `node index.js `
## TODO
Script to convert posts from Blogger to Markdown.
- [x] Read XML
- [x] Parse Entries (Posts and comments) (with xpath?)
- [x] Parse Title, Link, Created, Updated, Content, Link
- [ ] List Post & Respective comment counts
- [x] Content to MD - pandoc?
- [ ] Parse Images, Files, Videos linked to the posts
- [x] Create output dir
- [ ] List items that are not downloaded( or can't) along with their .md file for user to proceed
## Reasons
* Wrote this to consolidate and convert my blogs under one roof.
* Plain simple workflow with `hugo`
* Ideas was to download associated assets (images/files) linked to post. Gave up, because it was time consuming and anyhow I need to validate the markdown with assets of converted. And I don't see benefit.
* Initial assumption was to parse with `xpath` but I found `xml2json.js` was easier
* Also thought `pandoc` is a overkill and `turndown.js` was successful, though I had to wrap empty `text` to `md` instead of `html`.
* I want to retain comments. Believe it or not, There were some **good** comments.
* Was sick and spent around ~12 hrs over 5 days in coding and testing with my blog contents over ~150 posts. And also, I find parsing _oddly satisfying_ when it result in success. `¯\_(ツ)_/¯`