API to Frontmatter

Dumb node.js script to take a JSON API response and convert to markdown files with YAML frontmatter. Initially created to take dynamic content from a headless CMS and convert to a markdown based site.

Use:

node write.js --url=="https://my.url.com" --name=="keyForFileName" --dir=="directory --body=="keyForBodyText" --remove=="key1,key2,key3" ==title==true

args

• url: 'json url/path',
• name: 'JSON key for filename', - key to identify what value should be used for the filename (filename is 'cleaned' for spaces, punctuation, etc.)
• body: 'key for body text' - key to identify content that should make up the body (the content below the frontmatter)
• dir: 'directory to make'
• remove: 'key1,key2,key3' - remove specific keys from the object before writing to frontmatter (remove cruft)
• title: true - set frontmatter title from name argument

Note: args use '==' due to potential for urls to contain a single "="

Dependencies

• js-yaml
• axios