[ijongkim]

Really looking forward to trying out Ghost 2.0

I help run a small publication with some friends and we've been having difficulties with Medium and think it's time to move to a new platform.

One problem we haven't figured out a solution to yet is importing our Medium articles into Ghost.

My current plan is to export the Medium articles, parse them, then insert them directly into the Ghost DB. Is this is a viable solution?

I guess I have two questions: - Is Medium import going to be a feature offered any time soon? - How does the SEO configuration/setting work? Is it set up on article access? on article publish? on article creation? Would inserting articles directly into the DB break this process?

Thanks!

[johnonolan]

We have no real way to do anything here, unfortunately. Medium deliberately export a totally vague dump of HTML files which don't even contain publication date and are essentially unintelligible. They also have no API to read from. There might be a route to creating a scraper, but that comes with its own set of challenges which are not insignificant and then potentially can also be misused by people scraping content which is not their own. So it's a tricky one.

IMO Medium should provide a real export format and not hold people hostage... but you'd have to convince them of that

[binmanthrowaway]

Should GDPR enable portability in the web apps? I think that is mandatory for a website to offer data take away in a standard format.