Hashnode is a great blogging service and has a nice Github action for syncing your posts to a repository as a backup mechanism. However, at the time of writing, the backup mechanism does not extract the images from the CDN.

I "wrote" this backup script using Claude Sonnet 3.5 and after a few iterations I got it to work.

The script will copy your Hashnode blog posts over to a target directory and pulls the images out of the CDN (to prevent it attempting to copy SVGs, I added some specificity for the type of file it would regard as an image; If you use SVGs commonly for images, then modify the script.).

• For every post a folder is create (1)
• Images is created as a subfolder.
• The extracted images are nested within it.
• The post itself is written to index.mdSo I do not have that flag.

• Copy the script (backup-script.py)
• Rename example.env as .env
• Replace it with your values.

You'll need your Hashnode token.

One possible backup strategy to make sure that your Hashnode posts are being backed up regularly:

• Clone this repository onto your server.
• Edit values as above
• Run the Python program as a Cron job according to your desired backup frequency.

Daniel Rosehill
(public at danielrosehill dot com)

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