Content Migration Automation

Summary: a practical automation project for moving 1500+ WordPress articles through a controlled, script-driven workflow.

Why I built it

The migration volume made manual work risky. Repeating the same browser steps hundreds of times creates inconsistent output, missed records, and poor visibility into failures.

What it does

The workflow extracts article data, normalizes content fields, drives browser actions where needed with Puppeteer, logs progress, and keeps enough state to resume after failure.

Tech stack

Node.js for scripting, Puppeteer for browser automation, WordPress as the content source/target environment, and structured logs for progress tracking.

Key engineering decisions

I separated extraction, transformation, and publishing. That made it easier to inspect intermediate output and avoid coupling content cleanup to browser timing issues.

Problems I ran into

Browser automation depends on selectors, network timing, authentication state, and occasional inconsistent page behavior. The script needed retries and useful logs more than it needed raw speed.

What I learned

Good automation is observable. For migration work, the ability to resume and review failures matters more than making the script look compact.

What I would improve next

I would add stronger preflight validation, richer progress reports, and a dry-run mode that compares source and target records before publishing.

Links

Project-specific repository and demo links are not public yet.