With the update to #Pixelfed 0.12.5, I was finally able to export all my statuses. Before that, there was a hard limit of 500. Even though I only had about 170 posts of my own, all shares and likes and stuff counted into that balance, hence no download for me. Yet.

Now that I got a nice .json file, I used Excel to convert this into a usable table. Yeah, I know, Excel! But LibreCalc doesn’t understand .json and I have to use Microsoft shit at work anyhow. So why not take advantage of that?

The Pixelfed export contains not only texts, but also the URLs for all images. Copy that column of URLs to a text file, push it through WGET et voilà, a directory full of joy.

All I have to do is write a short macro which takes the available info from the spreadsheet and creates separate .md files for use in #Hugo or whatever platform I want to show the images on.

Since I don’t need any Pixelfed-specific functions, I can now close down my two instances. Future images will go to #Friendica and – via another script yet to be written – also to my blog.

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