a Python script that converts Facebook exported posts (in JSON format) and saves them as multiple markdown files

convert_FB_JSON.py

import json
import html
from datetime import datetime

def save_post(filename, date, text):
    print('----- NEW POST')
    print(filename)
    # print(text)
    body = f"""---
title: 
date: {date}
updated: {date}
categories: facebook
tags: 
---
{text}
"""
    f = open("out/" + filename + ".md", "w")
    f.write(body)
    f.close()

with open('posts/your_posts_1.json', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as json_file:
    posts = json.load(json_file)
    previous_date = "";
    duplicate_counter = 0;

    for i in posts:
        date_formatted = datetime.fromtimestamp(i['timestamp']).strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
        if (date_formatted == previous_date):
            duplicate_counter = duplicate_counter + 1
        else:
            previous_date = date_formatted
            duplicate_counter = 0

        for content in i['data']:
            if content.get('post'):
                text = content.get('post').encode('latin-1').decode('unicode_escape').encode('latin-1').decode('utf-8')
                filename = date_formatted
                if (duplicate_counter > 0):
                    filename = date_formatted + '_' + str(duplicate_counter)
                save_post(filename, date_formatted, text)