200wordsaday.com export script

200wad.rb

# uses the 200wordsaday.com API to export your posts as text files
# to install httparty:
# gem install httparty
require 'httparty'
require 'json'
require 'date'

url = 'https://200wordsaday.com/api/texts?api_key=<your api key>'
response = HTTParty.get(url)
entries = response.parsed_response
entries.each do |entry|
  entrydate = Date.strptime(entry["datetime"]["date"], '%Y-%m-%d').to_s
  filename = "files/" + entrydate + "-" + entry["title"].gsub(/[^\w\s]/, '').gsub(" ", "-") + '.txt'
  content = entry["content"].
    gsub("</p>", "\n\n").
    gsub("</blockquote>", "\n\n").
    gsub("<blockquote>", "    ").
    gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "").
    gsub(/&nbsp;/, " ").strip
  File.write filename, content
end