Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
So true!
“Migrating from WordPress to Markdown sounds easy. Mention it to any developer and they’ll say “Pfft, an afternoon of work at worst”
…
Suddenly it’s 6months later and you’re losing your mind.”
How to Export a Large WordPress Site to Markdown
I think I’m going to try the resulting script on one of my WP sites & see how it goes.
I’ve been experimenting a bit with #ClassicPress, also – it’s a hard fork of WordPress from version 4.9, just before they introduced the block editor, so there’s a lot less complexity. If I take the #WordPress approach, I may end up using ClassicPress for it instead.
While messing around with #IndieWeb, I’ve decided I want to build a consolidated #PESOS gallery of my photos at Instagram, Twitter, Mastodon, Pixelfed etc. I’ve got current archives for all (including from a dead Pixelfed instance).
Specs:
* Gallery, individual, and tag galleries
* Include captions and descriptions (I can add descriptions to the old photos)
* Links to wherever it’s posted (may be several sites)
* Light page code. I’d rather things load quickly than act fancy.
1/3
I’ve made a prototype in #WordPress so far, and it looks nice, and I already know how to automate new posts using IFTTT. But it feels heavy. And of course it’s one more instance to increase my attack surface & maintenance.
I’m going to give #Eleventy a shot next. I’ve worked with it before, and I can optimize the templates however I want. The image plugin can generate different sizes, thumbnails, etc. The main drawback: I haven’t researched ways to automatically import to 11ty yet.
2/3
Long-term I’d like to add #POSSE (selectively) to make it easier to cross-post. I had a set of 3 photos yesterday that I wanted to post to Flickr, Pixelfed, my blog, and my gemlog, and while it was mostly copying and pasting, it was also time-consuming.
Some of the stuff @stringerblog and @dansup have been talking about kind of overlap with this space.
3/4
Oh yeah, Flickr…the way I use it is different enough that I don’t want include my zillions of photos in this project. I might try a more full-featured gallery like Piwigo at some point. It’s less linear and more collection-based. But for photos I’ve cross-posted, I would like to link to it same as I would to Pixelfed or wherever, and it would be nice to include it in the outgoing posts once I get that up and running.
And I do like the idea of just federating the photos out directly!
4/5
OK, this got way more complicated and should’ve been a blog post.
So: building a personal #IndieWeb capable gallery of my sociallly-shared photos from various sources, keeping it light, pulling in new posts automatically (#PESOS) and eventually posting on my gallery and auto-posting it to Pixelfed/Twitter/Flickr/etc. (#POSSE) on a per-photo basis. Probably using #eleventy.
Anyone have any recommendations on tools that might be better than WP/11ty, or that would work well with this workflow?
Ooh, I could also generate a Gemini gallery! I remember @FiXato came up with some ideas on how to format one. I’d probably want to break it into categories or do it by tag or something
I wonder how much storage this will end up taking up. I probably won’t need to use S3 (finally started setting things up on DigitalOcean instead of AWS!) for this gallery unless I really want to CDN the images. By the time they’re scaled for whatever social network, it doesn’t take up any more space than by blog storage.
If I ever make my own Flickr mirror, though, that’s going to have to be a consideration!
I’ve been meaning to put together something to automatically retrieve remote images and attach them to a #WordPress post (for automatically generated posts). I figured I’d have to do something with curl to download the image, save it to a temp file, upload it to WP etc. Turns out there’s a function built in!
All I have to do is add a hook to wp_insert_post that calls media_sideload_image() when it finds the pattern I want, and plug the result into the post content.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/media_sideload_image