medium-images-downloader

Easy to use tool to download images from medium export

Install

First make a backup copy of your medium-export directory.
Copy composer.json and images-downloader.php from this repository to your medium-export/posts directory and use command
```
 $ composer install
```

Usage

Go to your medium-export/posts directory and run this command
```
 $ php images-downloader.php
```
Go to exports folder.

How it works

Recently I wanted to leave medium.com and go back to wordpress. I exported my data, and found out that images were just not included. Also, medium included only links to small images. I was very frustrated and I wrote this tool. Let me tell you how it works:

First it searches for the medium export files in the directory you are in. Medium files have names like YYYY-MM-DD-whatever-(Hash with 12 hex digits).html
After it searches your files for images. Exported Image links by medium are small (400/800 etc). So this tool replaces the url and gets the original file.
Downloads all images to export/img folder.
Then it replaces all image links in your html files, and saves them to export folder.
Original html exports stays the same.

It downloads all files, so it can take some time.

Credits

Midori Kocak

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.

Attention

No WARRANTY. I have no responsibility if you lose your files. Please use with caution. Backup your files as instructed.