omnivore-to-bear

Tool that exports your Omnivore articles to Bear.

Prerequisites

• Bear must be installed and you must be logged in.
• Omnivore account.
• Omnivore API key.

Usage

bun install
bun index.ts --api-key=<MY_OMNIVORE_API_KEY>  --from-scratch=true --archived-only=true --parent-tag=omnivore

Arguments

Arg	Description	Mandatory	Default
--api-key	Omnivore API key.	Y	N/A
--from-scratch	Clean up the database so the export starts all over again. !!! Please note that it can lead to duplicate notes in Bear !!!	N	false
--archived-only	Only archived articles from Omnivore.	N	false
--parent-tag	Defines the parent tag to be used to organize articles in Bear	N	omnivore

Shortcomings

x-callback-url

Bear does not provide us with a "proper" API, it uses the x-callback-url protocol instead. This prevents us from easily correlating data.

As a result, In Bear, exported articles are identified by their titles.

Article Deletion

At the moment, this tool doesn't support deleting Omnivore articles previously exported to Bear and deleted in Omnivore afterward.

Example

Here is what an exported article looks like once exported to Bear: