Welcome to fm-to-md generator 🙌

CLI that generates a Markdown file from your notes of any frontendmasters.com course.

Get your notes and use them anywhere! 🚀

✨ Demo

fd-to-md generator eases creating Markdown files with your notes from any frontendmaster.com course.

demo.mp4

🚀 Usage

1. Download the repo and install packages:

npm install

2. Get data from frontendmasters.com

You'll need:

• Link to the main page of the course
• File with course JSON data
• File with notes JSON data

To get JSON data you need to (testing on Chrome):

1. Open DevTools and move to Network tab and filter requests by Fetch/XHR, refresh the page with course content.
2. You will see 2 requests whose name is the same as the course slug e.g. for https://frontendmasters.com/courses/javascript-hard-parts-v2 you should see request javascript-hard-parts-2. Click on each of the requests and select Copy -> Copy Response. Create files and copy content to them, paths to these files you use as parameters.

If you don't know the request is about notes or a course you can check properties. Request related to your notes has notes property inside.

how-to-get-requests.mp4

3. Run script

node index.js -n data/notes.json -c data/course.json -l https://frontendmasters.com/courses/ -o javascript-hard-parts-v2.md

• -n - path to your JSON file with notes data (required)
• -c - path to your JSON file with course data (required)
• -l - link to the main page of the course (Page without concrete lessons e.g https://frontendmasters.com/courses/javascript-hard-parts-v2) (required)
• o - full path to your output file (default: output.md)

👨🏻‍💻 Author

Michał Paczków

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