A simple script to do some of the heavy lifting for moving Wordpress reviews to BoardGameGeek

wp2bgg.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'highline/import'
require 'open-uri'

conversions = [
  ["<blockquote>", '[q]' ],
  ["</blockquote>", '[/q]' ],
  ["<strong>", '[b]' ],
  ["</strong>", '[/b]' ],
  ["<em>", '[i]' ],
  ["</em>", '[/i]' ],
  ["<h2>", '[size=18]' ],
  ["</h2>", '[/size]' ],
  ["<h3>", '[size=14]' ],
  ["</h3>", '[/size]' ],
  ["<li>", '<li>- ' ],
  ["&nbsp;", ' ' ],
  [/\<a href="([^"]*)"\>([^\<]*)\<\/a\>/, '\2 (see [url]\1[/url])'],
]

prompt_response = ask("WordPress Blog Post URL:")
prompt_location = ask("Output Filename:") {|q| q.default = "review.txt" }

uri = URI.parse(prompt_response)
body = open(uri.to_s)
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(body)

node = doc.css('.entry-content').first

node.css('#ilikeposts').each(&:unlink)
node.css('.wpadvert').each(&:unlink)
node.css('.sharedaddy').each(&:unlink)

converted_node = Nokogiri::HTML(conversions.inject(node.inner_html) {|mem,(from,to)| mem.gsub(from,to) })
text = converted_node.text

text.gsub!(/^-\s*\n\[/,'-[')
text.gsub!(/^([^-])/, "\n" << '\1')

File.open(prompt_location, 'w+') {|file| 
  file.puts "Originally posted at [url]#{uri}[/url]\n\n" << text
}