Import zips #173
Import zips #173
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this adds basic support for importing files as blog posts. .txt and .md are supported at this time and the collection is selectable, defaulting to draft. if a collection is specified the post is federated.
different template action for partial or complete import success
handler for post request to import is now under /api/me/import form target updated also allow all plaintext files in form
this changes the import handler to use CreatePost instead of CreateOwnedPost which required generation of non expiring access tokens
in favor of library side generation to support zip files
this updates to parse the time from the imported file, using v0.1.1 of the wfimport library
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the only thing really missing, other than pretty front end things, is importing just .txt files. that's a quick change though, a new |
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Hang on, Rob, we may be duplicating effort. I believe I have zip imports working in https://github.com/writeas/wp-import/tree/writefreely-import . |
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We have indeed, rather I have. I should have jumped over there before writing the zip part. I think we can merge the general purpose zip parsing logic into writeas/import, not right away but eventually. My goal with Then we will have a library for parsing posts from various files and formats. We can still then have a |
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That was my eventual goal as well, if I'm understanding you correctly, so we're on the same page. A note, while we're talking about it: although Medium's export format is ZIP, it needs a little more finagling than Write.as/WriteFreely's ZIPs, since there's a bunch of stuff in there we don't care about and the posts are in HTML format. Do we have existing code, or a recommended library, for converting HTML to markdown? I don't remember offhand. |
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👍 In the import library there is a function So we could add, say AFAIK there is not any existing code we have for conversion, there is probably a nice library somewhere. |
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form is now dynamic depending on files selected, only for users with javascript. those with it disabled see everything needed to understand and operate the form.
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now checking for and returning invalid content type errors
ghost
this allows zip files in the import upload form plain files are still uploaded to the selected collection but zip contents are considered drafts with the exception of subdirectories, these are added to the corresponding collections. if no collection is found then it will be created.
by default all content is enabled and displayed, this allows users without javascript enabled to still use the form and understand what is happening. users with javascript enabled will see actions and options disabled until the files selected allow, and show information and warnings about zip files in needed.
user feedback logic was updated to report if zero posts were found in a zip and form submissions disable the submit button until the form input for files changes again, preventing possible duplicate submissions on large zip uploads. updated to v0.2.1 wfimport to prevent early error returns when an invalid file is present in a zip.
This is just a draft for early discussion, it is dependent on #172 and will likely need changes.
Expect force pushes while work continues on text imports.