Migrate from Medium and import your content to Ghost with this guide
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Developers can migrate content from Medium to Ghost using our migration CLI tools.
You will first need to export your content from Medium. This contains all of your data, including your posts.
Medium only offers an export of all content to individual authors. If your publication has more than one author, each author needs to export their content, and then you need to run the migration command below for each author.
First, make sure the CLI is installed.
# Install CLI
npm install --global @tryghost/migrate
# Verify it's installed
migrate
# Run the migration
migrate medium --pathToZip my-export-file.zip
Once the CLI task has finished, it creates a new ZIP file which you can import into Ghost.
Using custom domains
If you’re using a custom domain on Medium, you’ll need to implement redirects in Ghost to prevent broken links.
Medium appends a small random ID to each post, which is removed in the migration step above. The regular expression below removes that random ID, but does not affect preview links.
# redirects.yaml
301:
^\/(?!p\/?)(.*)(-[0-9a-f]{10,12}): /$1
302:
This means that if a visitor or crawler goes to https://mysite.com/aweosme-post-a1b2c3d4e5f6, they will automatically be redirected to https://mysite.com/aweosme-post.
Summary
Congratulations on your migration to Ghost 🙌. All that’s left to do is check over your content to ensure the migration has worked as expected. We also have a guide on how to implement redirects to make your transition smoother.
