Restructuring the metadata of my blog with frontmatter

fontmatter-hugo-post-converter

#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import frontmatter
import glob
import codecs

home = '/home/noqqe/Code/noqqe.de/content/blog/'

files = glob.glob(home + '*.md')

for f in files:
    print f
    with open(f, "r") as o:
        post = frontmatter.loads(o.read())
        tags = post["tags"]

        tags = [ unicode(v).lower() for v in tags ]
        try:
            tags = list(set(tags))
        except:
            continue

        tags = [ v for v in tags if not unicode(v).lower().startswith('ubuntuusers') ]
        tags = [ v for v in tags if not unicode(v).lower().startswith('planetenblogger') ]
        tags = [ v for v in tags if not unicode(v).lower().startswith('osbn') ]

        post["tags"] = tags

        # correct date
        post["date"] = post["date"].strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")

        # remove comments flag
        try:
            del post["comments"]
        except KeyError:
            pass


    with codecs.open(f, "wb+", 'utf8') as o:
        o.write(frontmatter.dumps(post))