Batch processing to search and replace in all posts

[dandv (Dan Dascalescu)]

Authors of import plugins (e.g. @Sander78’s Facebook import) should be able to crank/extract one out relatively quickly.

Alternatively, I’ve released a Node.js script that uses the API to do search&replace:

[Announce] Search & replace / batch process Discourse posts

==> Discourse-post-process <== I’m happy to introduce this simple but powerful Node.js script that uses the Discourse API to mass-modify Discourse posts. It essentially performs a regexp-based search & replace across all posts in a forum. After migrating a few thousand posts from MyBB to Discourse, there was various little tweaks that needed to be made (fix BBCode → Markdown conversion, re-attach attachments, fix @username mentions when the usernames have changed etc.) I’m not a Ruby coder, an…