Migrating from Ghost: Problem Solving

yeah the markdown process is quite daunting. Working on that now myself. I’m considering generating html from the markdown, then to Sanity but not quite sure if that’s better or not than trying to convert markdown directly. This is getting me much of the way: https://www.sanity.io/guides/how-to-migrate-your-html-blog-content-from-ghost

Great blog post. I was looking at making a lot of very similar decisions, but they took it much further. I wouldn’t mind helping out if you are making your converter open source

I’d be happt to share once I get it working. Still trying to figure out how to run a node script with modules correctly 🤦

this sorta thing

ahh just use

const myLib = require('my-package')

when I do that it eventually fails on importing things inside sanity libraries, etc

You could also trying running your script with

sanity exec path/to/your-script.js

oh, interesting, I’ll give that a shot!

That could fix import errors since it lets you use the

import lib from "package"

syntax

you’re a lifesaver, that did it

I mean I now have bugs to fix but it’s working

Haha glad I could help

In that guide, can you figure out what to do with

ndjson

once you’ve populated

ndSerialize

? I’m not understanding how I get that to a file from here

I just used

I can’t figure out how to actually write out the ndjson from the processing script though, I’m sure something trivial is escaping me

I’m not sure where you’re getting

ndSerialize

from. What I did was read the

md

file with node, extract out the content, and write to a

.ndjson

file. From there I used

sanity import

to upload the

.ndjson

file

oh sorry, in this guide they generate the ndjson file. I have a similar case where I have a handful of preprocessing I want to do so I have a nice clean ndjson at the end. That post leaves out what to do at the very end to get the file. I can ask in the group here if you aren’t sure, though

Oh from the article! Let me look again and see

What do you mean by “get the file”? they also used

sanity dataset import

after generating the ndjson file

I was expecting the script to at the very end write to disk, somehow

it’s not clear it actually does that

I see. They don’t actually show any function calls, they just make the functions

and you call

writeJson

, I get that part, it seems like it’s loading

ndSerialize

with each line, but it never seems like that’s closed out and written to disk

I see, you’re on the right track but your logic is off. They are using the

processPost

function for every object in their ``mux-blog.ghost.json`` file

yep, I’m working on a json export I got from gatsby’s graphql so I don’t have to think too hard about the logic of finding all my posts and associated files

sure, but where does the ndjson end up? I basically am doing this script, but like is there a file that should be output or?

You have to decide the path and create the stream to write to a file

ahhhhhh ok. They write to

ndJsonLines

🤦

Exactly

that’s all the final puzzle pieces, thank you, now to figuring out how to handle the markdown body cleanly

Awesome! Let me know when you work through it!

Hey any progress?

yeah made good progress on the import script last week, about the only think left I have is the markdown/html/body so I think I’ll be tackling that this week