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Moving Medium's bookmarks to Trello using JavaScript

February 24, 2019

I firmly believe that our time should be spent on important things.
The time you spent searching for an article could be time spent on reading that article.

Contents

1 Quick Demo
2 Getting started
3 Features
4 Setting up Trello
5 Setting up Medium
6 Usage
7 Contributing

Quick Demo

Moving Medium'S Bookmarks To Trello Using Javascript

Getting started

You might have to update the .env file from time to time, because cookies have limited lifetime.

Features

conventions: field = list name; keyword = filter key

fetch saved posts from Medium and transfer them to Trello and also remove them from bookmark list
the keywords for a field can also include regular expressions
add keyword to a field

Syntax: $field_name $filter_key1 | $filter_key2

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create field and add keywords to it

Syntax: create!$field_name $filter_key1 | $filter_key2

Example: create!posts development posts
You can see where each card will be placed by having a look at info.log file after getting the message All good? (y/n)
the show_list command will print the existing lists to the info.log file
create a Trello list if the list name exists in config.json, but not in Trello
add link to a list(which doesn’t have to exist) without applying any filters. Read More

Syntax: temp!$list_name

Example: temp!react

Setting up Trello

Getting the idBoard & token & cookie

Create a new card
Open the dev tools and open the Network tab
Clear the Network tab.
Create a new list(doesn’t matter the name)
Click on the lists request
Click on the Headers tab
Head over to Request Payload
Select the idBoard and paste it in the .env file
Select the token and paste it in the .env file next to tokenTrello
Select the cookie(located in the Request Headers) and paste it in the .env file next to cookieTrello

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Getting the trello-specific url (needed when adding a new list to a board)

Copy the short link from the url (https://trello.com/b/COPY_THIS_ONE/board_name)
Head over the urlTrello property
in the .env file replace the YOUR_BOARD_ID with the short link
You may now delete the list you have created earlier

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Setting up Medium

Getting the cookie & token

Go to your bookmarks
Open the dev tools and go to the Network tab
Refresh the page and scroll down until a new request is made (bookmarks?limit=20…)
Select the Headers tab
Copy the cookie located in the Request Headers and paste it in the .env file
Coy the x-xsrf-token located in the Request Headers and paste it in the .env file

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Usage

In your current directory:
node main.js

Available features.

Contributing

There are always improvements that could be made. All I ask is that you open an issue and we discuss your proposed changes before you create a pull request.