WordPress to Markdown

A node script that converts a WordPress API to Markdown.

There are a bunch of export tools but I wrote this one specifically to be able to point at any WordPress API and get the content.

For now (until I make an NPM package) you can download and modify this script.

It can download anything with title, date, permalink and content.rendered, which is most content types by default.

It can also download media - which will be treated differently.

CLI Usage:

args = [siteURL, ...contentTypes]

node ./cli "http://wordpress-site.com/" "posts" "pages" "media"

Outputs to wp folder.

Node Usage:

const WPtoMD = require("./path/to/index");
const URL = "http://mysite.com";
const contentTypes = ["posts", "media"];
const options = {
  output: "./wp-exports"
  // See default functions below (override if required)
  resolvePermalinks, 
  transformURLs,
};

WPtoMD(URL, contentTypes, options);

// Default resolvePermalinks and transformURL functions:

const resolvePermalinks = (slug, contentType) => {
  if ((contentType = "pages")) return `/${slug}/`;
  return `${contentType}/${slug}/`;
};

const transformURLs = (url, baseurl) => {
  url = `${url.replace(baseurl,"/")}`
  if(url.includes("wp-admin")) {
    url = "";
  }
  url = url.replace(RegExp(`\/wp-content\/uploads\/[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}\/`), "/assets/");
  return url
};