dwdcth · September 28, 2017 13:31 · Jul 11, 2012
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Converts HTML from https://exportmyposts.jazzychad.net/ exports to Markdown
+
+POSTS_DIR=/Users/richard/Desktop/d6y/posts
+
+for file in $POSTS_DIR/*.html
+do
+	echo $file
+
+	# The filename without the path:
+	basefile=`basename $file`
+
+	# Filenames have the form: yyyy-mm-dd-hh:mm:ss-slug.html
+
+	# Remove the hh:mm:ss- part
+	shortfile=${basefile/[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]-}
+
+	# Remove the .html part
+	withoutext=${shortfile%.html}
+
+	# The slug is the part after the date:
+	slug=${withoutext:11}
+
+	# The publication date in yyyy-mm-dd format
+	pubdatedash=${withoutext:0:10}
+
+	# The publication date in yyyy/mm/dd format
+	pubdate=${pubdatedash//-//}
+
+	# The output filename e.g., yyyy-mm-dd-slug.md
+	mdfile=${withoutext}.md
+
+	# MAGIC!
+	pandoc --reference-links -s -f html -t markdown $file > $mdfile.tmp
+
+	# The first line is a comment followed by the title
+	mdtitle=`head -1 $mdfile.tmp`
+	title=${mdtitle:1}
+
+	# Write meta data to the start of the file
+	echo "title: $title" > $mdfile
+	echo "date: $pubdate" >> $mdfile
+	echo "alias: /$slug" >> $mdfile
+
+	# Append the rest of the markdown without the title (as I don't need it)
+	tail +7 $mdfile.tmp >> $mdfile
+	rm $mdfile.tmp
+
+done
+