Transform your Revue newsletter issues to HTML

index.js

// Place the JSON exported from revue in the same directory, and rename it to items.json
// Or just change the path here
const items = require( './items.json' );
const issue_ids = new Set( items.map( t => t.issue_id ) );
const fs = require( 'fs' );

const issues = [ ...issue_ids ].map( id => {
    const content = items.filter( i => i.issue_id === id ).sort( a => a.order ).map( t => { 
        switch( t.item_type ) {
            case 'link':
                let link_content = "<a href=" + t.url + ">" + t.description + "</a>";

                if( t.image ) {
                    link_content += "<img src=" + t.image + " />";
                }

                return link_content;
            default:
                return t.description;
        }
    } );

    return {
        issue_id: id,
        content: content.join( "" ),
    };
} );

fs.mkdirSync( './result' );
issues.map( issue => {
    fs.writeFileSync( './result/'+ issue.issue_id + '.html', issue.content );
} );