Quick hack to extract wordpress posts from xml to separate html files.

wp-xml-to-html

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php
/*  Really nasty, really fast hack to extract all wordpress articles to .html files.
 *  Please test before using.  It worked for a particular site to save time copy and pasting.
 *  There is no garantee it will work for you.
 *  
 *  Note this a php CLI script don't run from browser.
 *
 *  I then used this to convert them to markdown files.
 *  find ./ -iname "*.html" -type f -exec sh -c 'pandoc "${0}" -o "./markdown/$(basename ${0%.html}.md)"' {} \;
 *
 */

$filename = "mycms.wordpress.2016-01-27.xml";
$file=file_get_contents ($filename);
$xml=simplexml_load_string($file);


foreach ($xml->channel->item as $item) {
	$filename = $item->title;

	# This section simply removes any part of the title that would make for a bad filename
	# Edit this section to suite yourself.
	$filename = str_replace ( "a) ", "", $filename );
	$filename = str_replace ( "b) ", "", $filename );
	$filename = str_replace ( "c) ", "", $filename );
	$filename = str_replace ( "d) ", "", $filename );
	$filename = str_replace ( "e) ", "", $filename );
	$filename = str_replace ( "f) ", "", $filename );
	$filename = str_replace ( "g) ", "", $filename );
	$filename = str_replace ( "h) ", "", $filename );

	# Replace / with -  for example /categoryname/postname  to category-postname
	$filename = str_replace ( "/", "-", $filename );
	# Replace spaces,  shouldn't happen but....
	$filename = str_replace ( " ", "-", $filename );

	# remove special chars from filename
	$special_chars = array("/", "(", ")", ",", ";", ":", "'", ".");
	$filename = str_replace ( $special_chars, "", $filename );
	
	# I had a couple of files with --- in them.
	$filename = str_replace ( "---", "-", $filename );

	#  I like my filenames all lower case
	$filename = strtolower($filename);

	# Create and write file
	$content = $item->children("content", true);
	$content = (string)$content->encoded; 
	$filename = $filename.".html";
	echo "writing $filename".".html" ."\n";
	file_put_contents($filename, $content);

}

?>