wpdl

Scrape pages, posts, images and other data from a WordPress instance using the WordPress REST API. Use simple command line arguments to clean up the scraped data.

Pre-requisites

Node.js v19 or newer (for native fetch support).

Usage examples

The following commands use the latest version of wpdl that is published in npm. To run the script locally, clone this repo and replace npx wpdl with npx ..

Scrape pages and posts

npx wpdl --url https://your-wp-instance.com --pages --posts

Scrape pages and clean up the html by filtering out all img elements and elements with the class foo. Also remove all elements without text content. From the json files, remove all the Jetpack and Yoast SEO data.

npx wpdl --url https://your-wp-instance.com --pages --elementFilter img --classFilter foo --jsonFilter "jetpack_*" --jsonFilter "yoast_*" --removeEmptyElements

To see full usage, run

npx wpdl -h