Is there a simple Ruby script somewhere that can be easily tweaked to do a search and replace in all posts? I’ve migrated from MyBB and there are some tiny formatting tweaks that need to be made, e.g. replace [hr] with ----------, or convert the quote lines . I’m very new to Ruby (basically learned …

[imagem] codinghorror: rake task that does string replacements scoped to just posts Okay, we have one now: [imagem] Replace a string in all posts Self-Hosting bookmark This guide explains how to replace a string in all posts within a Discourse instance.…

you can use script/discourse remap it may do the trick.

remap does a search and replace on text and char columns across all tables - a little rough of a tool. Also, how would the raw → cooked conversion be handled? Is there a higher-level way of altering and rebaking posts, that would take into account things like re-computing excerpts, quoted posts and…

You have a good point it might be nice to have a variant of this task that operates on just post bodies, @sam . It would be much safer too.

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: [imagem] [Announce] Search & replace / batch process Discourse post…

@techapj I would like a rake task that does string replacements scoped to just posts, if you can add that to your todo list. It can be a variant of the rake task that already exists, just a bit more specific in what it affects..

Batch processing to search and replace in all posts

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techAPJ (Arpit Jalan) 17 Agosto , 2016 10:24 7

Okay, we have one now:

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Batch processing to search and replace in all posts

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