Moving your Medium's Bookmarks to Trello

I firmly believe that our time should be spent on important things.
The time you spent searching for an article could be time spent on reading that article.

Quick Demo

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Getting started

• cp .env.example .env

• npm i

• Setting up Trello

• Setting up Medium

You might have to update the .env file from time to time, because cookies have limited lifetime.

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Features

conventions: field = list name; keyword = filter key

• fetch saved posts from Medium and transfer them to Trello and also remove them from bookmark list
• the keywords for a field can also include regular expressions

  

• add keyword to a field

  Syntax: $field_name $filter_key1 | $filter_key2
  Example: react react hooks | \bstyled components\b

  

• create field and add keywords to it

  Syntax: create!$field_name $filter_key1 | $filter_key2
  Example: create!posts development posts

  

• You can see where each card will be placed by having a look at info.log file after getting the message All good? (y/n)
• the show_list command will print the existing lists to the info.log file
• create a Trello list if the list name exists in config.json, but not in Trello
• add link to a list(which doesn't have to exist) without applying any filters. Read More

  Syntax: temp!$list_name
  Example: temp!react
  

  

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Setting up Trello

Getting the idBoard & token & cookie

• Create a new card
• Open the dev tools and open the Network tab
• Clear the Network tab.
• Create a new list(doesn't matter the name)
• Click on the lists request
• Click on the Headers tab
• Head over to Request Payload
• Select the idBoard and paste it in the .env file
• Select the token and paste it in the .env file next to tokenTrello
• Select the cookie(located in the Request Headers) and paste it in the .env file next to cookieTrello



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Getting the trello-specific url (needed when adding a new list to a board)

• Copy the short link from the url (https://trello.com/b/COPY_THIS_ONE/board_name)
• Head over the urlTrello property
• in the .env file replace the YOUR_BOARD_ID with the short link
• You may now delete the list you have created earlier

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Setting up Medium

Getting the cookie & token

• Go to your bookmarks
• Open the dev tools and go to the Network tab
• Refresh the page and scroll down until a new request is made (bookmarks?limit=20...)
• Select the Headers tab
• Copy the cookie located in the Request Headers and paste it in the .env file
• Coy the x-xsrf-token located in the Request Headers and paste it in the .env file

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Usage

In your current directory: node main.js

Available features.

Contributing

There are always improvements that could be made. All I ask is that you open an issue and we discuss your proposed changes before you create a pull request.