E-Tumblr-L

Extract Transform Load — from Tumblr to Hugo

A method of extracting data directly from Tumblr, formatting it, and saving it as Markdown files, suitable for rendering on a Hugo site.

To Use

• Get Go installed, including the GOPATH and GOROOT set up.
• Clone this repo, however you prefer to clone open source Go projects.
• Copy the dotenv.example file to .env in the project root.
• Fill in the .env with the corresponding sekrit keys from Tumblr's developer console.
• While you're in the .env file, add the blog whose content you want to ETL.
• Inspect the post.tmpl file to ensure that the layout is how you want it to be on your blog.
• Run go get github.com/MariaTerzieva/gotumblr for interacting with the Tumblr API.
• Run go get github.com/joho/godotenv for loading a config stored in a .env file.
• Run go run main.go from the project root, then wait.
• Check out all of the Markdown files you now have!

Very Important

The code in main.go is ugly af and whatever the opposite of DRY is. I'm so sorry. Maybe one day, I'll refactor it and/or add goroutines whenever I'm ready to learn about them. Pull requests and kind, constructive comments & suggestions are always welcome, of course.