converting journey android app entries to dayone entries using the the dayone-cli limited input options

journey2dayone.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

## converting journey android app entries to dayone entries using the the dayone-cli limited input options

# first download all single posts zip files and place them in the folder of the script. Then run
# unzip '*.zip'
# where quotes are important!
#
# Then run this script in the folder

import json
import os, glob
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
import datetime

for f in glob.glob('*.json'):
	with open(f,'r') as fh:
		j = json.load(fh)
	text = j['text']
	date = j['date_journal']
	dateobj = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(date/1000)

	if j['photos']:
		photo = j['photos'][0]
		cmd = ['dayone', '-p=%s' % photo, '-d="%s"' % dateobj.strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M'), 'new']
	else:
		cmd = ['dayone','-d="%s"' % dateobj.strftime('%m/%d/%Y %H:%M'), 'new']

	print(' '.join(cmd))
	p = Popen(cmd, stdin=PIPE)
	stdout_data = p.communicate(input=str.encode(text))[0]