This is a Node script to convert CSV files to Markdown files. We recently migrated over from a traditional CMS called October to a static site generator called Gatsby. With posts being exported in a CSV file, we thought it'd be best to automate the process of creating Markdown files with front matter data that we can then import into our new Gatsby blog (which you can take a look at the code here).
- Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/ninjality/convert-csv-markdown.git - Install dependencies:
npm installoryarn install(learn about yarn)
The entire script is in src/index.js. Anything configurable is declared at the top, so make sure to update CSV_PATH, MARKDOWN_DIR, getMarkdownPath, and renderMarkdown as needed.
The example.csv file is what will be used to convert posts into Markdown. Make sure to keep the same format, with the first line being the column names. It's also important to reference these column names correctly in the script.
You can run npm run convert or yarn convert to run the script, which by default will create .md files in the markdown-posts folder.
Many thanks to the creators of Noderize and csv-parse for allowing easier development of this script. We hope to update it in the future as an interactive CLI script that you can install globally through npm, but for now we hope this makes your migrations less painful!