anchor-export

A small utility for exporting posts and pages from AnchorCMS.

Problem

You have been using Anchor CMS with MySQL for a while, and have a bunch of pages and posts. You need to be able to export the data into static text files, either for backup, or for importing into another system.

Solution

Run this bash script. It will export all posts and pages in your MySQL database to Markdown files with a TOML header suitable for use with Phenomic, Hugo, Jekyll, etc.

Filenames are base on the slug of the page.

Limitations

It doesn't currently export css or js.
It doesn't currently include all metadata.

Usage

Example usage:
    anchor-export.sh --host=localhost --password=fake123 --user=ezralalonde --port=007 --output-dir=./directory
    anchor-export.sh --openshift -o=out

-h --host
    MySQL database host.
    Default: localhost
-p --password
    Password to the database.
    Default: blank
-d --database
    The name of the AnchorCMS database.
    Default: anchor
-u --user
    Name of the database user.
    Default: root
-P --port
    Port to use to connect to database.
    Default: 3306
-o --output-dir	
    Directory to output Markdown files into.
    Will be created by the script. Do not use existing directory; it will be deleted.
    Default: ./export
--openshift	
    Use environment variables to set other values.
    USER=$OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_USERNAME
    HOST=$OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_HOST
    POST=$OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_PORT
    PASS=$OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_PASSWORD

Installation

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ezralalonde/anchor-export/master/anchor-export.sh

Bonus

Uses PHP to reverse HTML Encoding of characters (ie. < becomes <).
Asks for confirmation before deleting directories by default.

It should be pretty easy to hack on to suit your requirements.

ezralalonde / anchor-export