Script to reorganize text in markdown files created by Exitwp when exporting wordpress files. Created to work for Dropplets formatting for markdown files

converttoMD.py

#!/user/bin/python

#Claudia D'Adamo, December 2013
# This script will reorder lines in Markdown files to be used as posts for the Dropplets blogging platform. 
# I used Exitwp to convert Worpress files to Markdown that is compatible with Jekyll but doesn't work with what I want to do 

import os

def main():

	markdownFileDirectory = "/Users/DAdamo/Desktop/oldposts"	# directory of old markdown files
	outputDirectory = "/Users/DAdamo/Desktop/droppletsposts/"	# directory where you'd like the new files to go
	os.chdir(markdownFileDirectory)

	twitterHandle = "claudadamo"
	author = "Claudia D'Adamo"

	for filename in os.listdir(markdownFileDirectory):
		
		categories = ""

		markdownFile = open(filename,'r')

		filename = filename.replace(filename[0:11],"")	# remove dates from name of file
		OutputFileName = filename.replace(filename[-9:],"") # remove .markdown extension from filename
		OutputFileName = outputDirectory+OutputFileName+".md" # create new filename with .md extension

		outputFile = open(OutputFileName,'w')

		infolist = [0] * 5 # empty list to hold all header information
		infolist[1] = "- "+author+"\n"
		infolist[2] = "- "+twitterHandle+"\n"	# add twitter handle line to list of header info

		
		markdownFile.readline()	# reads in first line of "---"

		# go through getting header information that changes post to post
		for line in markdownFile:
			if line[0:5] == "title":
				infolist[0] = "# "+line[6:]
			if line[0:4] == "date":
				infolist[3] = "- "+line[6:10]+"/"+line[11:13]+"/"+line[14:16]+"\n"
			if line[0:2] == "- ":
				line=line.rstrip()
				categories=categories+line[2:]+", "
			if line[0:3] == "---":
				break

		infolist[4] = "- "+categories[:-2]+"\n"	# add categories in, remove extra formatting

		for item in infolist:
			string = str(item)
			outputFile.write(string)
		outputFile.write("- published\n")		# assumes you'd like these published since they were already published in wordpress

		for line in markdownFile:			# output the body of the post
			string = str(line)
			outputFile.write(string)

		outputFile.close()
		markdownFile.close()


if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()