Downloads all of your Basecamp files for archiving

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README.md

Basecamp Exporter

This is a little script that will walk your Basecamp XML export (which you can download from Basecamp directly) and download all the associated files for you. Makes for a much more complete Basecamp export, especially if you did much design work in your projects.

Enjoy!

Caveats

• Probably doesn't work with old-school FTP file storage; but if you're using that, you should have all the files yourself anyhow.

basecamp_export.rb

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
require 'fileutils'
require 'openssl'
require 'progress'

OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
def OpenURI.redirectable?(uri1, uri2)
  true
end

def help!; puts "Usage: <subdomain> <api_token> <export_xml_file>"; exit(1); end

$subdomain = (ARGV[0] || help!)
$api_token = (ARGV[1] || help!)
$xml_file  = (ARGV[2] || help!)

def get(path, bare=false)
  path = (bare ? path : "https://#{$subdomain}.basecamphq.com#{path}")
  open(path, http_basic_authentication: [$api_token, 'X']).read
end

doc = Nokogiri.XML(File.read($xml_file))

doc.xpath("/account/projects/project").with_progress("Projects").each do |project|
  name = project.xpath("name").first.text
  project_directory = File.join("exports", $subdomain, name)
  project.xpath("posts/post").with_progress("Posts").each do |post|
    next unless(post.xpath("attachments-count").text.to_i > 0)
    post_directory = File.join(project_directory, "[#{post.xpath("id").text.rjust(10, "0")}] #{post.xpath("title").text.gsub('/', '-')}")
    FileUtils.mkdir_p(post_directory)
    full_post = Nokogiri.XML(get("/posts/#{post.xpath("id").text}.xml"))
    full_post.xpath("/post/attachments/attachment").with_progress("Attachments").each do |attachment|
      filename = File.join(post_directory, attachment.xpath("name").text)
      next if(File.exist?(filename))
      begin
        url = attachment.xpath("download-url").text
        File.open(filename, 'wb') do |f|
          f.write(get(url, :bare))
        end
      rescue OpenURI::HTTPError
        puts "Error downloading #{url}: #{$!.message}"
      end
    end
  end
end

Gemfile

source 'http://rubygems.org'

gem 'nokogiri'
gem 'progress'

Gemfile.lock

GEM
  remote: http://rubygems.org/
  specs:
    nokogiri (1.5.0)
    progress (2.4.0)

PLATFORMS
  ruby

DEPENDENCIES
  nokogiri
  progress