B2Evolution to Ghost migration script
In this repo you can find a script that generates a JSON file with all the posts you have in your B2Evolution MySQL database instance.
It connects directly to the database and generates the JSON structure on standard output. The file can be piped to a file and directly imported into a Ghost instance using the Settings / Labs / Import content feature.
Installation
This is a simple Perl script, and requires some CPAN dependencies. The
dependencies are all listed in the cpanfile, and can usually be installed
either through your package manager (if you're using system perl), or using
the command cpanm --installdeps . if your using a custom perl instance.
If you use a custom perl and install directly from CPAN, make sure the
mysql_config program is installed (needed by DBD::mysql). It can usually
be installed with your system package manager. In Debian-based distros, it
is named libmysqlclient-dev.
Usage
Fill in your database details in .env, using .env.template as a guide,
or set the environment variables in some other way. Make sure you know which
timezone has been used for all the timestamps in the b2evolution database,
as it doesn't use database timestamp fields with timezone information. Also
fill in this information in .env. If you don't set this, the script
defaults to UTC.
License
This script is licensed with the same terms as Perl itself.
Copyright
Robin Smidsrød (robin@smidsrod.no)