@tryghost/mg-medium-export v0.17.7

Migrate Medium Export

Migrate content from Medium using the supplied zip file, and generate a zip file you can import into a Ghost installation.

Install

To install the CLI, which is required for the Usage commands below:

npm install --global @tryghost/migrate

To use this package in your own project:

npm install @tryghost/mg-medium-export --save

or

yarn add @tryghost/mg-medium-export

Usage

To run a Medium migration, the required command is:

migrate medium --pathToZip /path/to/my-export.zip

Note: The zip path can be to a singular zip file or a folder of zip files

It's possible to pass more options, in order to achieve a better migration file for Ghost:

• --pathToZip (required)
  • Path to a zip file
  • string - default: null
• -V --verbose
  • bool - default: false
  • Show verbose output
• --zip
  • bool - default: true
  • Create a zip file
• -s --scrape
  • Configure scraping tasks
  • string - default: all
  • Choices: all, img, web, media, files, none
• --sizeLimit
  • number - default: false
  • Media files larger than this size (defined in MB i.e. 5) will be flagged as oversize
• -e --email
  • string - default: false
  • Provide an email domain for users e.g. example.com
• --addTag
  • string - default: null
  • Provide a tag name which should be added to every post in this migration (Wrap in single quotes if tag name has spaces 'Like This')
• --addPlatformTag
  • Add #medium tag to migrated content
  • bool - default: true
• --mediumAsCanonical
  • bool - default: false
  • Use medium article as canonical URL
• --removeResponses
  • bool - default: true
  • Remove response posts such as comments from the output
• --fallBackHTMLCard
  • bool - default: true
  • Fall back to convert to HTMLCard, if standard Mobiledoc convert fails
• --cache
  • Persist local cache after migration is complete (Only if --zip is true)
  • bool - default: true

A more complex migration command could look like this:

migrate medium --pathToZip /path/to/my-export.zip --email example.com

This will process all posts from the zip file, and all authors will have an email address ending in 'example.com'

Develop

This is a mono repository, managed with lerna.

Follow the instructions for the top-level repo. 1. git clone this repo & cd into it as usual 2. Run yarn to install top-level dependencies.

Run

To run a local development copy, cd into this directory, and use yarn dev instead of migrate like so:

yarn dev medium --pathToZip /path/to/my-export.zip

Test

• yarn lint run just eslint
• yarn test run lint and tests

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2013-2023 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license.