ghost-to-jekyll-converter

Converts posts from a Ghost backup file to jekyll posts.

Ghost to Jekyll converter

Convert ghost posts to markdown files ready to use with Jekyll.

Turns this

<h1>Blog Title</h1><p>Blog content.</p>

Into a file called 2023-01-15-blog-title.md containing this

---
title: Blog Title
---

# Blog Title

Blog content.

From the root directory of the repo, build the docker image.

docker build -t ghost-to-jekyll .

Install ruby v3.1.3 manually or using a ruby version manager like rbenv.

Install dependencies.

bundle install

Export your Ghost content using a web browser or the CLI. More info available here.

Then run ruby bin/ghost_to_jekyll -f <path-to-backup-file>.json or for Docker

docker run -v <volume-name>:/root/ghost-to-jekyll/converted_posts ghost-to-jekyll -f <path-to-backup-file>.json

When running locally without Docker, files are saved to your home directory $HOME/ghost-to-jekyll/converted_posts.

When running with Docker the converted files will be saved to the volume which you specify. To learn more about how volumes work in Docker go here.