Quick Script: Wordpress to Markdown

Jul 01, 2017

Recently I had the occasion to convert a bunch of wordpress posts over to a Jekyll blog, including a bunch of pictures that I sent out for third party hosting. I wrote a quick/simple script and I’m embedding it via github-gists below. It downloads a page via http, then splits it into the content and then an array of pictures. Note that you’d have to change this if you had pictures interspersed throughout your post, instead of all at the end. I don’t intend this to be a catch-all or anything, but hopefully it’s useful to someone. Requires BeautifulSoup be installed and imgur-uploader be installed and working on the path. It only converts/posts once per hour to avoid imgur’s upload limits. I hope this helps someone!