Ghost Blogger

Simple set of scripts to help migrate blog content from Blogger to Ghost

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Ghost migration utils
• ruby-addressable -- URI handling
• ruby-http -- HTTP/S library that's better than Net::HTTP
• ruby-json -- JSON parsing and s
• ruby-nokogiri -- XML and HTML parsing

Executing program

First and foremost, note that each of the two utilities has lots of options, and you can see them with ghost-blogger.rb --help or image-embedder.rb --help.

1. Download blog export from Settings -> Manage Blog -> Back up content

2. Run ghost-blogger.rb <path_to_blogger_export.xml> > intermediate.json

   intermediate.json will (by default) include post content under an html key for each post.

3. Run npx migrate json html intermediate.json

   Will produce a file named ghost-import.json, with translated post content under the mobiledoc key for each post.

4. Run mkdir -p content to make sure the image download directory exists.

5. Run image-embedder.rb ghost-import.json > embedded-json-import.json

   Will attempt to cache all post images in the content directory, and output a version of the import file where all images refer to locally-hosted files instead of files on the internet somewhere.

6. Run rm -f embedded-ghost-import.zip; zip -r embedded-ghost-import.zip content/

   Will create an uploadable zip file of all the cached images. It is intentional that this file does not contain the json file.

7. Upload embedded-ghost-import.zip to Ghost via Settings -> Labs -> Import Content. This will host the files, and will start a background process of resizing the files so they can be provided at multiple resolutions.

8. Upload embedded-ghost-import.json to Ghost via the same Settings -> Labs -> Import Content. This will import all of the posts. Note that it's important to do this as a separate step -- if you include the JSON in the zip file, everything will seem to work, but all of the feature images will be broken.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License v2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• https://github.com/ageitgey/medium_to_ghost
• https://gist.github.com/DomPizzie/7a5ff55ffa9081f2de27c315f5018afc