captbaritone / wp2md

A script to convert Wordpress XML dump to markdown files

Wordpress to Markdown Exporter

A python script to convert Wordpress XML dump to a set of plain text/markdown files. Intended to be used for migration from Wordpress to public-static website generator, but could also be helpful as general purpose Wordpress content processor.

Installation

The script could be installed by command:

pip install -e git+git://github.com/dreikanter/wp2md#egg=wp2md

It will install wp2md and the following dependencies:

• html2text
• python-markdown

Usage

Export Wordpress data to XML file (Tools → Export → All content):

And then run the following command:

wp2md -d /export/path/ wordpress-dump.xml

Where /export/path/ is the directory where post and page files will be generated, and wordpress-dump.xml is the XML file exported by Wordpress.

Use --help parameter to see the complete list of command line options:

usage: wp2md [options] source

Export Wordpress XML dump to markdown files

positional arguments:
  source      source XML dump exported from Wordpress

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -v          verbose logging
  -l FILE     log to file
  -d PATH     destination path for generated files
  -u FMT      <pubDate> date/time parsing format
  -o FMT      <wp:post_date> and <wp:post_date_gmt> parsing format
  -f FMT      date/time fields format for exported data
  -p FMT      date prefix format for generated files
  -m          preprocess content with Markdown (helpful for MD input)
  -n LEN      post name (slug) length limit for file naming
  -r          generate reference links instead of inline
  -ps PATH    post files path (see docs for variable names)
  -pg PATH    page files path
  -dr PATH    draft files path
  -url        keep absolute URLs in hrefs and image srcs
  -b URL      base URL to subtract from hrefs (default is the root)

The output

The script generates a separate file for each post, page and draft, and groups it by configurable directory structure. By default posts are grouped by year-named directories and pages are just stored to the output folder.

But you could specify different directory structure and file naming pattern using -ps, -pg and -dr parameters for posts, pages and drafts respectively. For example -ps {year}/{month}/{day}/{title}.md will produce date-based subfolders for blog posts.

Each exported file has a straightforward structure intended for further processing with public-static website generator. It has an INI-like formatted header followed by markdown-formatted post (or page) contents:

title: Я.Субботник в Санкт-Петербурге, 3 декабря
link: http://paradigm.ru/yandex-subbotni
creator: admin
description: 
post_id: 635
post_date: 2011-11-23 22:10:35
post_date_gmt: 2011-11-23 19:10:35
comment_status: open
post_name: yandex-subbotnik
status: publish
post_type: post

# Я.Субботник в Санкт-Петербурге, 3 декабря

Я.Субботник в Санкт-Петербурге пройдет 3 декабря в [офисе Яндекса](http://company.yandex.ru/contacts/spb/).
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See also

• How to export Wordpress data
• How to export Wordpress.com data

Copyright and licensing

Copyright © 2013 by Alex Musayev.
License: GNU (see LICENSE).

Project home: https://github.com/dreikanter/wp2md.