bear2hugo.py - Migrating from Bear Blog to Hugo

I’ve written the following small Python script to migrate a Bear Blog to Hugo:

import csv
import os

with open('post_exports.csv') as csv_file:
    csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter=',')
    os.makedirs("./pages", exist_ok = True)
    os.makedirs("./posts", exist_ok = True)
    for row in csv_reader:
        dir = ""
        if row[11] == "True":
            dir = "pages/"
        else:
            dir = "posts/"
        with open(dir + row[4]+'.md', 'w') as post:
            publish = row[9]
            if publish == 'False':
                draft = "true"
            else:
                draft = "false"
            post.write("+++\n")
            post.write("slug = '" + row[4] + "'\n")
            post.write("title = '" + row[3] + "'\n")
            post.write("date = " + row[6] + "\n")
            post.write("draft = " + draft + "\n")
            post.write("tags = " + row[8] + "\n")
            post.write("+++\n")
            post.write(row[12])

It’s not really sophisticated but it does the job. Here’s all you need to know:

Create a new directory, e.g. ~/bear2hugo/
Create a new file bear2hugo.py in this directory and copy the above content into this file
Download the export file from Bear Blog via the menu item “Export all blog data”
Place the resulting file post_exports.csv together with bear2hugo.py in ~/bear2hugo/
Execute the script: # python3 bear2hugo.py
It will create two new directories pages and posts
It will parse through CSV file and create a Mardown file for each post and page inside the corresponding directories
You can now copy the files into your content/ and content/blog/ directory and use them with Hugo