I'm preparing to migrate this blog thingy from Hashnode (which has been great!) to a GitHub Pages site with Jekyll so that I can write posts locally and then just do a git push to publish them - and get some more practice using git in the process. Of course, I've written some admittedly-great content here and I don't want to abandon that.
Hashnode helpfully automatically backs up my posts in Markdown format to a private GitHub repo so it was easy to clone those into a local working directory, but all the embedded images were still hosted on Hashnode:
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I wanted to download those images to ./assets/images/posts-2020/ within my local Jekyll working directory, and then update the *.md files to reflect the correct local path... without doing it all manually. It took a bit of trial and error to get the regex working just right (and the result is neither pretty nor elegant), but here's what I came up with:
1#!/bin/bash
2# Hasty script to process a blog post markdown file, capture the URL for embedded images,
3# download the image locally, and modify the markdown file with the relative image path.
4#
5# Run it from the top level of a Jekyll blog directory for best results, and pass the
6# filename of the blog post you'd like to process.
7#
8# Ex: ./imageMigration.sh 2021-07-19-Bulk-migrating-images-in-a-blog-post.md
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10postfile="_posts/$1"
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12imageUrls=($(grep -o -P '(?<=!\[)(?:[^\]]+)\]\(([^\)]+)' $postfile | grep -o -P 'http.*'))
13imageNames=($(for name in ${imageUrls[@]}; do echo $name | grep -o -P '[^\/]+\.[[:alnum:]]+$'; done))
14imagePaths=($(for name in ${imageNames[@]}; do echo "assets/images/posts-2020/${name}"; done))
15echo -e "\nProcessing $postfile...\n"
16for index in ${!imageUrls[@]}; do
17 echo -e "${imageUrls[index]}\n => ${imagePaths[index]}"
18 curl ${imageUrls[index]} --output ${imagePaths[index]}
19 sed -i "s|${imageUrls[index]}|${imagePaths[index]}|" $postfile
20done
I could then run that against all of the Markdown posts under ./_posts/ with:
1for post in $(ls _posts/); do ~/scripts/imageMigration.sh $post; done
And the image embeds in the local copy of my posts now all look like this:
Brilliant!
