Migrate Libsyn

Migrate content from Libsyn using your sites RSS feed, and generate a zip file you can import into a Ghost installation.

Install

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

npm install --global @tryghost/migrate

To use this package in your own project:

npm install @tryghost/mg-libsyn --save

or

yarn add @tryghost/mg-libsyn

Usage

To run an absolute basic Libsyn migration, the required command is this:

migrate libsyn --url https://example.com

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

• --url (required)
  • URL to Libsyn website
  • string - default: null
• -V --verbose
  • bool - default: false
  • Show verbose output
• --zip
  • bool - default: true
  • Create a zip file
• --addTag
  • string - default: null
  • Provide a tag slug which should be added to every post in this migration
• --useFeedCategories
  • bool - default: true
  • Use the itunes:categories as tags for each post
• --useItemKeywords
  • bool - default: true
  • Use the itunes:keywords as tags for each post
• --useEmbed
  • bool - default: true
  • Use Libsyn embed for audio players. If disabled, audio files will be downloaded and uploaded to Ghost as Audio cards
• -s --scrape
  • Configure scraping tasks
  • string - default: all
  • Choices: all, img, web, media, files, none
• --sizeLimit
  • number - default: false
  • Media files larger than this size (defined in MB [i.e. 5]) will be flagged as oversize
• --cache
  • Persist local cache after migration is complete (Only if --zip is true)
  • bool - default: true

A more complex migration command could look like this:

migrate libsyn --url https://example.com --useEmbed false --scrape none  --useFeedCategories false --useItemKeywords false

This will use the Libsyn <iframe> embed, not use categories or keyword as tags, and not scrape or save any remote files such as images, audio files, or linked PDFs.

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.

Run

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

yarn dev libsyn --url https://example.com

Test

• yarn lint run just eslint
• yarn test run lint and tests

Copyright & License

Copyright (c) 2013-2025 Ghost Foundation - Released under the MIT license.