Turning old Facebook Page posts into a dated build log in Laravel
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Most of the builders I'd love to have on Boat Build Log already wrote their log somewhere else. They posted it to Facebook, one update at a time, for years. Asking a retired man to retype ten years of posts into my site is exactly why he never signs up. So I wrote an importer. This post is about the part that turned out to matter: taking messy, harvested posts, turning them into clean dated entries, and loading them with an Artisan command you can run ten times without making a mess. The case