This is a markdown-to-Snooty-rST converter. It's adapted from M2R, an archived Github repo, and adjusted to be specific to Snooty and the MongoDB documentation team's workflow.

To learn more about M2R, see M2R's README

Python 3.7+ is required.

1. Install the original m2r to get all dependencies for the program:

python3 -m pip install m2r

2. Clone this repo.
3. Follow the usage instructions below.

There are two use cases for m2snooty:

You can use m2snooty to convert .md files to .rst files on a one-time basis and then manually move them to their destination repo.

For one-time conversion of a single file, run the following command in the directory containing the markdown file. Replace <your-repo-dir> with the directory where you keep your Github repos and file.md with the name of the file.

python3 ~/<your-repo-dir>/m2snooty/m2snooty.py file.md

m2snooty converts your markdown file to rst and stores it in a file with an .rst extension. It places the .rst file in the same directory as the markdown file.

To use the file, change the .rst file extension to a .txt file extension and place it in the repo where you want to build the page with Snooty.

You can convert multiple files in a directory and change their file extension to .txt by running the migrator script. To run the migrator script:

1. Navigate to the directory that contains the files you want to convert to .rst.
2. Run the following command. Replace <your-repo-dir> with the directory where you keep your Github repos:

sh ~/<your-repo-dir>/m2snooty/scripts/m2snooty-migrator.sh -p <your-repo-dir>

m2snooty converts your markdown files to rst and changes their file extensions to .txt. It places the .txt files in the same directory as the markdown file. To write the results to another location, adjust the migrator script and run the adjusted version.

You can use m2snooty together with docurl for ongoing conversion. This is ideal when you need to maintain a Github repo containing markdown docs, but you also want an up-to-date copy of those docs rendered with Snooty in a MongoDB docs site. To do this, set up docurl to continuously pull .md files into a directory that you add to .gitignore (to prevent Snooty errors). Then, keep the Snooty versions updated by running docurl fetch and running a script (like this one for the cloud docs team) to quickly run m2snooty.py, move the rST files to a folder that Git tracks, and change them to .txt files.

To run the script for the cloud docs team, writers run sh ~/Projects/m2snooty/scripts/m2snooty-atlas-go-sdk.sh -p Projects and replace both instances of Projects with the directory that houses their repos.