Migrate Medium Members txt Export

Converts a Medium members txt export and generates a csv file you can import into a Ghost installation.

Install

To install the CLI, which is required for the Usage commands below:

``sh
npm install --global @tryghost/migrate
`

To use this package in your own project:

npm install @tryghost/mg-medium-members --save

or

yarn add @tryghost/mg-medium-members

Usage

To run basic Medium member migration, the required command is this:

`sh
migrate medium-members --pathToTxt /path/to/members.txt
`

A more complex command for a Medium member migration looks like this:

`sh
migrate medium-members --pathToTxt /path/to/members.txt --verbose true
`

It's possible to pass more options, in order to achieve a better migration file for Ghost:

- --pathToTxt (required)
- Path to members text file
- string - default: null
- --cache
- Persist local cache after migration is complete (Only if --zip is true)
- bool - default: true
- -V --verbose
- Show verbose output
- bool - default: false
- --zip
- Create a zip file
- bool - default: false

Develop

This is a mono repository, managed with lerna.

Follow the instructions for the top-level repo.
1. git clone this repo & cd into it as usual
2. Run yarn to install top-level dependencies.

$3

To run a local development copy, cd into this directory, and use yarn dev instead of migrate like so:

`sh
yarn dev medium-members
`

Test

- yarn lint run just eslint
- yarn test` run lint and tests

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2013-2026 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license.