svbtle-jekyll

Convert svbtle posts to Jekyll.

Svbtle does not offer an export feature. This python script scrapes the Svbtle Dashboard for a list of posts, Gets the metadata and content for each post, then renders markdown files with YAML front matter for Jekyll.

svbtle-jekyll does the bare minimum to generate basic jekyll compatibility. The resulting markdown and front matter will need almost certainly need editing. But this will hopefully save some time.

Usage

First clone the repo and do the normal python dance:

$ virtualenv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Now you need to get a cookie from Svbtle. I didn't build functionality to log in to svbtle and retrieve a cookie, so you need to log in using your browser and find the value for the remember_user_token cookie. This is pretty simple. Just use your favorite cookie viewer browser extensions. I use EditThisCookie for Chrome.

Now you can run the tool like this:

$ python svbtle-jekyll.py -c <cookie> -t <target directory for generated markdown files>

This should grab each post and create an appropriate named Jekyll markdown file at the target specified in -t.