Convert a MovableType export to single Markdown posts to use with Octopress

mt_to_markdown.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'date'
require 'mustache'
require 'stringex'
require 'cgi'

export     = File.open(ARGV[0])
target_dir = ARGV[1]

class Post < Mustache
  self.template = <<-MARKDOWN
---
layout: post
title: "{{title}}"
date: {{formatted_date}}
comments: {{comments}}
categories: {{category}}
author: {{author}}
---

{{formatted_body}}
MARKDOWN

  attr_accessor :author, :title, :category, :comments, :status, :body

  def initialize
    @body = []
  end

  def date=(date)
    case date
    when String
      @date = DateTime.strptime(date, "%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p")
    else
      @date = date
    end
  end

  def date
    @date
  end

  def formatted_date
    @date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
  end

  def comments=(comments)
    @comments = comments == "1" ? true : false
  end

  def formatted_body
    CGI.unescapeHTML(body.join).
      gsub(/<a href="(.*?)">*(.*?)<\/a>/i, '[\2](\1)').
      gsub("<!--more-->", "\n\n<!-- more -->\n\n")
  end

  def file_name
    "#{date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")}-#{title.to_url}.markdown"
  end
end

posts = [Post.new]

KEYWORDS = /(AUTHOR|TITLE|STATUS|COMMENTS|CATEGORY|DATE): (.*)/

def attr_and_value(line)
  line =~ KEYWORDS
  ["#{$1.downcase}=", $2]
end

puts " # Reading from data '#{ARGV[0]}' ..."

puts " # Generating Markdown ..."

comment_section = false

export.each do |line|
  if line.strip == "--------"
    posts << Post.new
    print '.'
    comment_section = false
    next
  end

  next if comment_section

  case line.strip
  when KEYWORDS
    posts.last.send(*attr_and_value(line))
  when /BODY/
    next
  when "-----"
    next
  when /COMMENT:/
    comment_section = true
    next
  else
    posts.last.body << line
  end
end

puts
puts " # Writing files to #{target_dir} ..."
`mkdir -p #{target_dir}`
`cd #{target_dir} && rm -rf _posts && mkdir _posts`

ok, fails = 0, 0

posts.each do |post|
  begin
    File.open(File.join(target_dir, "_posts", post.file_name), "w+") { |f| f.puts post.render }
    puts " -> #{post.file_name}"
    ok += 1
  rescue
    puts " # Could not write file for '#{post.title}'"
    fails += 1
  end
end

puts
puts " # All done! (#{ok}/#{fails})"