Backup Your Bear Blog to GitHub
Bearblog GitHub Backup Tool 🔧🔗↗️
This little script was written out of a desire to backup my Bearblog site. The blogging platform is great, but the only built in way to back up your blog is very manual - so I made a way to utilize the RSS feed to do so.
How Does It Work? 🚧
The Python script tells GitHub actions to check for an update every 6 hours. If there has been a new update to your RSS feed, then GitHub will pull the HTML from your post and parse it into Markdown format and save it as a .md file on your repository in the "posts" folder (included in the repo).
You can change the chron job time to be whatever you'd like, but I initially set it at a 6 hour interval because I sometimes write multiple posts in one day.
Also, I built in logic to prevent duplicates by simply naming the file the title-of-your-blog-post.md and the script checks for an exact match for the de-dupe verification.
Note 💡 One thing to note is that the RSS feed is limited to 10 most recent posts, so you need to manually add any older posts by downloading them from the Settings section of your Bearblog dashboard (use the markdown option) and uploading them into the GitHub repository.
How to Use 🧠
Clone or fork this repo -or- create your own repo for storing your backup
Go into the .github/workflows directory and remove the '#' from the front of line 5 (# - cron: "0 */6 * * *" # Runs every 6 hours after you remove the front comment hash) to ensure the workflow will run
Be sure that you go to the repo settings, then add a variable to actions (currently under secrets and variables)
Name the variable:
BEARBLOG_RSS_URLMake the content your RSS feed: https://YOURBLOG.com/feed/
I hope you all find value in this little tool! It works the way I need it to, but feel free to make it your own.