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Introducing 📥 11ty/import: a CLI tool to import content as static files

👋🏻 Easily export all of your WordPress posts
👀 Show recent 🐘 Mastodon posts on your web site without expensive embeds
✅ Make a CMS out of anything on the web using PESOS
🔎 Repeatable and resume-able using local caching for API requests, and a lot more!

Try it out: github.com/11ty/eleventy-impor…


GitHub - 11ty/eleventy-import: Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too)

Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too) - 11ty/eleventy-import
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Andy Blum
Andy Blum
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maybe it’s just Friday, but what is PESOS? Googling only results in websites about the Mexican currency
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Ollie Boermans
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@andyblum just opened that tab myself indieweb.org/PESOS

“PESOS is an acronym for Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site”

PESOS

PESOS is an acronym for Publish Elsewhere, Syndicate (to your) Own Site. It's a syndication model where publishing starts by posting to a 3rd party service, then using infrastructure (e.g.
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Alan
Alan
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a while back I was working on pulling through WP posts via graphql, would this be a better way of doing that? Or is this more of a one-off than trigger-build-on-update?
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Alan
Alan
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nice! I second the question about other post types, can it handle more than just the main post feed?
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Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0
Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0
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@alansuspect not yet! Early days though, please file an issue to request this! github.com/11ty/eleventy-impor…

GitHub - 11ty/eleventy-import: Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too)

Utility to import content from multiple services (and a CLI, too) - 11ty/eleventy-import
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Ollie Boermans
Ollie Boermans
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I don’t suppose this could be somehow used to persist the fetch plugin cache? 🥺

In my particular case I’m imagining a directory of json files fetched incrementally from an api that could then be gathered into a collection.

I hope to chart some game stat history for the kid. 🕹️ 📈

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Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0
Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0
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@ollicle ah—do you mean commit the fetch plugin cache to git? I don’t think that’s quite the right use case for this—it’s unlikely we’ll ever tackle that one generally given the riskiness of accidentally exposing private information in API calls.

However, persisting entries from a data source (after a bit of cleaning) is what this plugin does, yeah!

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Ollie Boermans
Ollie Boermans
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the latter for sure. Brilliant!

Writing data alongside fetch myself has proven to be literally loopy.

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Jon
Jon
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is it able to import from a folder of html and images - whilst resolving links and images when it outputs?
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Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0
Eleventy 🎈 v3.0.0
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@scrwd what kind of folder of html/images are you thinking? most of the pieces are there and we’re motivated to add more import types!
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Jon
Jon
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it's not the specific output format of any tool, but I've built a lot of Jekyll sites with a lot of liquid and plugins etc. so it would be cool to just be able to point your tool at the output and have it bring it into Eleventyland with HTML back to Markdown and and with images in subfolders all tidied into a single assets folder without breaking any links. I was looking at something myself using unified but I really got stuck with image relocation and link resolution haha
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