MovableType => Hugo migration tool

This scripts will convert a Movable Type 3.x blog to a Hugo-powered site.

There are two scripts included:

• a script to migrate posts from a SQLite MT-schema DB;
• HTML pages statically burned to disk by MT.

Note: this README is still incomplete... The scripts are work in progress, they work more or less OK, but still need work. I migrated my own blog with them, you can see it at www.simplicidade.org.

Install

If you have Docker, the easiest way to use this script is with the image already available on Docker hub.

See usage with Docker below.

If you want to install the app locally, the easiest way is with Carton. It will install all the dependencies in a local/ directory, and you can run them with carton exec.

If you don't have cpanm, you can get it by following these quick instructions:

cd ~/bin
curl -L https://cpanmin.us/ -o cpanm
chmod +x cpanm

Usage

Using Carton

To migrate a MT blog, first migrate posts via DB:

carton exec -- ./movable_type2hugo.pl <path_to_sqlite_db> <path_to_hugo>

Add a -v to see what is going on.

Then migrate the pages again via scraping. This could catch pages that the DB missed, usually in case of incomplete backups. It is OK to run both, as long as you run the script to migrate from DB first.

carton exec -- ./scrape_blog.pl <path_to_archive_pages> <path_to_hugo> --prefix <aliases_prefix>

Again, you can use a -v to see whats going on.