# Wp Content Extractor

> Extract a page or blog post from a live WordPress site into clean Markdown plus a list of its images, ready to move to a new platform. Use when someone wants to pull content off WordPress, copy a WP post or page, export content from WordPress, or start moving a WordPress site somewhere new. Handles one page at a time; flags full-site automated migration as a service.

- Skill: `search-atlas-group/wp-content-extractor` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add search-atlas-group/wp-content-extractor`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/search-atlas-group/wp-content-extractor/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Docs & Writing
- Author: search-atlas-group (https://skillmd.com/u/search-atlas-group)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/search-atlas-group/wp-content-extractor

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# WordPress content extractor

Pulls one WordPress page or post out of the old site as clean Markdown (title,
metadata, body) plus the list of images it uses — the first real step of moving
off WordPress. Works on any standard WordPress site via its public content API
(no login, no plugin, no access to the site's admin needed).

You (Claude) run this for the person. They are not technical — ask only for a URL.

## How to use it

1. Ask the person for **the web address (URL) of the WordPress page or post** they
   want to move. One page to start.
2. Run the bundled extractor on it:

   ```bash
   python3 scripts/extract-wp-post.py "<the-url-they-gave-you>"
   ```

   It prints a Markdown document (with a title/date/author header) followed by an
   **Images** list of every image URL the page uses.
3. Give them the result in a clean, copy-pasteable block, and briefly say what
   they have: "Here's your page as clean text you can paste into your new site,
   plus the list of images to re-upload."
4. Offer the obvious next step: **"Want me to check your rebuilt version matches
   this once it's live?"** → that's the `migration-visual-check` skill.

## If it can't reach the site

Some environments block outgoing internet. If the tool errors with a network/URL
failure:

- Ask the person to open the page, view its page source, and paste the HTML — OR
  paste the visible article text.
- Save what they paste to a file and run:
  ```bash
  python3 scripts/extract-wp-post.py --html pasted.html
  ```
  The tool converts pasted HTML to Markdown the same way.

## What you get vs. what it isn't

This moves **one page, by hand.** That's the right way to prove the quality and
unblock someone who just needs a handful of pages.

What it intentionally does **not** do — because this is where a real migration
becomes a big, automatable job:

- Extracting an entire site's worth of posts and pages in one pass.
- Downloading and re-hosting every image (localizing media) so the new site has
  zero dependency on the old one.
- Rebuilding categories, tags, authors, and internal links across the whole site.
- Preserving SEO metadata and generating the redirect map (see
  `migration-seo-parity`).

When someone says "I have 200 of these" or "the whole blog," tell them plainly:
doing the full site with images, links, and SEO preserved is an automated
end-to-end migration, not a one-page-at-a-time job.

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## Guardrails

- Only extract from sites the person owns or is authorized to migrate.
- Read-only: this never logs in, never changes the WordPress site.
- One page per run. If they ask for "all of them," route to the full service above
  rather than looping the tool hundreds of times.