markdown-to-json


Tool for converting YAML Front Matter in Markdown files to JSON files.

m2j is used to read a folder of Markdown files, pulling out the YAML
Front Matter from each, and saving it all as a JSON blob.

This is especially useful if you have a folder full of Markdown files
that you want scanned and processed into a single JSON file, which can
then be consumed by Angular on the client, cached in a Node server, or
saved in a NoSQL database.

In addition to moving the YAML to JSON, a few extra elements are created:

- iso8601 [formatted][1] timestamp from date using [Moment.js][2]
- preview is the first 70 or so characters of the actual raw Markdown content, with ellipses at the end
- basename is the filename without the path or extension
- content is created only if the content flag is enabled; raw Markdown content will be unabridged

_Example_

``
% m2j --help

Usage: m2j [options]

Options:

-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-w --width max width of preview text [70]. Set to 0 for no preview.
-p --pretty format JSON with newlines
-c --content include the full content of the file unabridged
-o --outfile filename to save json to [output.json]


% m2j.js lottery.md
`

lottery.md

`md
---
title: The Lottery Ticket
author: Anton C.
date: "2013-03-15 15:00"
template: article.jade
tags:
- Fiction
- Russian

---

Ivan Dmitritch, a middle-class man who lived with his family on an income of twelve hundred a year and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on the sofa after supper and began reading the newspaper.

`

output

`js
{
"files": [
{
"title": "The Lottery Ticket",
"author": "Anton C.",
"date": "1893-04-01",
"template": "article.jade",
"tags": [
"Fiction",
"Russian"
],
"preview": "Ivan Dmitritch, a middle-class man who lived with his family on an …",
"iso8601Date": "1893-04-01T00:00:00-07:00",
"basename": "lottery.md"
}
]
}
``

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
[2]: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/string/