/nodejs-jekyll-to-ghost

Takes your Markdown posts from Jekyll and packages them up into a JSON file that Ghost (http://ghost.org) can import.

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Node.js Jekyll to Ghost

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This NodeJS module will help you to export Jekyll markdown posts to a format that can be easily imported to Ghost Blog Platform.
It doesn't handle static pages, and it doesn't do anything with images. You'll have to copy those over yourself and manually adjust any URL differences.

This was built by reverse-engineering the version of Wordpress plugin and Ghost schema to match the JSON file it outputs.

Prerequisite

  • Node.js v4.0

How to use

Clone/download the repository then place your Jekyll posts into posts folder or create a folder in the root level with your Jekyll posts. Your post should be on YAML format (which is Jekyll default format).

To install dependencies

sudo npm install

To start to export

node index.js ./path/to/jekyll/posts

Type the name of the folder.. wait for the magic happen. If everything went fine you should get this message

Ghost JSON generated successfully!

And a file called ghost-generated.json was created on your folder.

After do the steps above boot up your Ghost platform.

npm start

Go to the url http://localhost:2368/ghost/debug/ import the file generated nodejs-jekyll-to-ghost called ghost-generated.json That's it.. Now you should have migrated your posts to Ghost format and ready to begin blog on your new Ghost blog platform.

ps: I removed all test posts on Ghost blog before migrate my Ghost generated format.

Contributing

  1. Fork it!
  2. Create your branch: git checkout -b my-new-branch
  3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'fix stuff'
  4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-branch
  5. Submit a pull request

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Michael Lancaster

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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