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Document how to import posts from Medium (#3262)
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boxydog authored Jan 15, 2024
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manually, or use a plugin such as `More Categories`_ that enables multiple
categories per article.

.. note::

Imported pages may contain links to images that still point to the original site.
So you might want to download those images into your local content and manually
re-link them from the relevant pages of your site.

Dependencies
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$ pelican-import --wpfile -o ~/output ~/posts.xml

For Medium (an example of using an RSS feed):

$ python -m pip install feedparser
$ pelican-import --feed https://medium.com/feed/@username

.. note::

The RSS feed may only return the most recent posts — not all of them.

Tests
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