Migrate Medium Members txt Export

Converts a Medium members txt export and generates a csv file you can import into a Ghost installation.

Install

To install the CLI, which is required for the Usage commands below:

npm install --global @tryghost/migrate

To use this package in your own project:

npm install @tryghost/mg-medium-members --save

or

yarn add @tryghost/mg-medium-members

Usage

To run basic Medium member migration, the required command is this:

migrate medium-members --pathToTxt /path/to/members.txt

A more complex command for a Medium member migration looks like this:

migrate medium-members --pathToTxt /path/to/members.txt --verbose true

It's possible to pass more options, in order to achieve a better migration file for Ghost:

• --pathToTxt (required)
  • Path to members text file
  • string - default: null
• --cache
  • Persist local cache after migration is complete (Only if --zip is true)
  • bool - default: true
• -V --verbose
  • Show verbose output
  • bool - default: false
• --zip
  • Create a zip file
  • bool - default: false

Develop

This is a mono repository, managed with lerna.

Follow the instructions for the top-level repo.

1. git clone this repo & cd into it as usual
2. Run yarn to install top-level dependencies.

Run

To run a local development copy, cd into this directory, and use yarn dev instead of migrate like so:

yarn dev medium-members <commands>

Test

• yarn lint run just eslint
• yarn test run lint and tests

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2013-2023 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license.