prerequisites

currently it works only with postgre database. you can add mysql support. (:

installation

get the source:

git clone https://github.com/norayr/diaspora2hugo
cd diaspora2hugo
git submodule update --init

last line syncs submodule dependencies of the project.

to compile it you need to use vishap oberon compiler.

once you have it, make sure that voc executable is in your path, you are in the diaspora2hugo directory and type make.

using

first time you probably need to get all the public diaspora posts as hugo ready markdown files. for that run

d2h <username>

for instance, I change to hugo posts directory 'post' and run ../build/d2h norayr because that's my username.

the files you get have the naming like 2018-12-24_3407245_spyurk.md. i. e. year-month-day_post_id_spyurk.md.

spyurk means 'diaspora' in armenian, also it is the name of my pod. i use the special suffix because i have other posts in my hugo blog. the word 'spyurk' is hardcoded, i did not want to introduce more commandline arguments or a need for a config file.

if you'd like you can easily rename all *spyurk files with commandline utility rename.

in all consequent runs you'd like to extract as markdown only latest posts.

for that the usage is

d2h <username> <post_id> and then markdown files for all posts starting from mentioned post id will be generated.

If you want to make sync automatically, then you can use a cron job, which calls this script.

it can be simplified down to

posts_path="/home/m/matean/content/post"
hugo_path="/home/m/matean"
d2h="/home/inky/diaspora2hugo/build/d2h"
  cd $posts_path
  last_post=`ls $posts_path/*spyurk.md | tail -n 1 | awk -F "_" {'print $2'}`
  $d2h norayr $last_post

i use something like this 23 5 * * * root /root/sync_diaspora_to_matean.sh

that's all folks!