metalsmith-dayone
A Metalsmith plugin to create files from a Day One JSON export.
This plugin only works with Day One v2.
Getting your Day One data
Learn how to export your data as JSON from Day One. Don't worry too much about filtering in Day One, since this plugin allows you to filter which journals and entries get built.
After you have the .zip
file, here are the steps to make sure metalsmith
can work with it:
- Extract the
.zip
file - If it extracts to a directory, you're all good to go
- If it just extracted to a
.json
file, put that file inside a directory
Example
See the metalsmith-dayone-example
repo for an example with paginated entries and tags pages.
Usage
Hopefully Super Basic Usage
Once you have all your exported Day One data in a directory, just point the source
method at that directory.
This will result in the destination
directory having an html
file for each entry! It will also copy any referenced photos to that directory.
__dirname source'./path/to/dayone/data'
Adding Day One data to an existing site
If you already have a metalsmith
site or want to use Day One data in conjunction with other stuff, you probably don't want to change the source
path. In this case, you can provide a data
option to metalsmith-dayone
to tell it where to look for your data.
__dirname source'./you/already/got/src'
Can't you just work with the zip file?
metalsmith-dayone
can unzip the .zip
file for you, but it requires that the source
directory exists. If all you want is Day One data with metalsmith
you'll need to point source
at an empty directory.
// Create an empty directory first __dirname source'./empty'
Filtering Day One data
metalsmith-dayone
can filter which journals and entries get built by passing options to the plugin.
Let's say you have a journal called Exercise
with a ton of entries but you only want to build a site with entries tagged run
or bike
. Here's how you'd do that:
__dirname source'./path/to/dayone/data'
What does this plugin do?
Day One captures a lot of data. From weather.windSpeedKPH
to userActivity.stepCount
, well there's a bunch. For this reason, this plugin doesn't do much data parsing except the following:
- Transforms the
text
to a buffer (and optionally parses it tohtml
) and puts it oncontents
- Rewrites any internal Day One links and images to point where they will be in the
destination
directory - Adds
title
metadata based on the best guess from the entry - Places all other Day One data as if it were read from
frontmatter
Here's an example of some data after metalsmith-dayone
is done with it (with a path
of entries/:id
):
'entries/BC5CE1B78AFC4003A1BB0CF5593013C5.html': contents: Buffer text: '# Raw markdown\nStuff' title: 'Raw markdown' tags: 'tag' 'tag3' weather: ... location: ... ... 'photos/123.jpeg': contents: Buffer 'entries/E686072CCEE044948295B7C4CF5D1C42.html': contents: Buffer text: '![](/photos/123.jpeg)' title: 'Untitled' // No title for this entry tags: 'tag1' 'tag3' photos: ... ...
Full API
data
(optional)
String
Path to your exported Day One data directory or .zip
file.
If this is not used, it will default to the metalsmith.source
directory.
path
(optional, default: entries/:id.html
)
String
The path where each entry will be written. :id
will be replaced by the Day One entry id.
layout
(optional, default null
)
String
Specifiy a layout property to be used with each entry. Used for compatibility with metalsmith-layouts
.
true
)
markdown (optional, default Boolean
Whether to parse the text of each entry from markdown to html. Based on this property the extension of each file will be .html
or .md
.
journals
(optional, default null
)
String | [String, ...]
Filter which journals get built by doing a case insensitive match on the name of the journal.
By default all journals get built.
tags
(optional, default null
)
String | [String, ...]
Filter which entries get built by doing a case insensitive match on the entries' tags.
By default all entries get built.
Known Issues
- I've had one journal where the exported data is always missing a few images even though they are visible inside Day One
LICENSE
MIT