Cornhsu.PolyMigrate 1.1.1

PolyMigrate

The i18n-first static-site migrator — the only site migrator that pairs your multilingual pages automatically.

Project write-up · NuGet · 繁體中文說明 · MIT

PolyMigrate turns legacy dynamic sites (old PHP sites and the like) into clean, static-site-ready Markdown — and it treats multilingual content as a first-class concern, not an afterthought. Config-driven, fully offline-rerunnable, built on .NET.

Status: 1.0. The extraction pipeline, pairing, verification, thumbnails and orphan-page recovery are complete and validated against a real full-site migration (see below). The CLI surface and the Phase output contracts are now stable: new features bump the minor version, fixes bump the patch version.

Why

Every multilingual institution site (governments, universities, NGOs, religious organizations) faces the same painful migration step: matching up the language versions of every page by hand. No existing tool solves this — general-purpose scrapers extract pages one at a time and leave the pairing to you. PolyMigrate:

• pairs automatically where filenames are symmetric (/ch/news/x ↔ /en/news/x share a translation_key),
• suggests pairs heuristically where they are not — shared photo albums, normalized dates hidden in slugs (20240121 vs 01212024), title similarity,
• honestly reports what it cannot pair, producing a review-ready gap inventory instead of guessing wrong.

Languages are not limited to two: declare any number in lang_map and every output (frontmatter, inventories, pairing) expands accordingly. All locale output is standard BCP-47.

Battle-tested defaults

The extraction pipeline bakes in fixes for real problems found during a real migration — things generic tools and LLM extractors silently get wrong:

Case study: full temple-site migration

PolyMigrate's pipeline is the productized version of a completed real migration (a bilingual Buddhist temple site, Chinese/English):

• 516 pages mirrored and extracted, 4.6 GB of media
• 281 translation keys; 231 bilingual articles paired automatically by symmetric paths
• built-in verifier: 1,269 internal links + 4,116 media references checked — 0 errors
• 13 orphaned articles recovered via date probing; 141 EXIF-rotated photos fixed in thumbnails

The original Python prototype's output was used as the golden baseline while porting: 466/516 extracted bodies are byte-identical after whitespace normalization, and the remainder are render-equivalent or strictly more faithful.

Two more numbers from that run:

• Re-runs are ~7× faster: media hashes are cached by (size, mtime), taking a full re-run of the 4.6 GB site from 30.1 s down to 4.6 s.
• The output is deployable as-is: redirect_map is auto-filled with the new paths, and PolyMigrate emits both an nginx conf and a Netlify _redirects file — turning a half-day of hand-written 301s into copying one file.

Install & use

Two channels — pick whichever runtime you already have. Same tool, same behaviour.

npx cornhsu-polymigrate extract site.yaml   # Node — no .NET install needed
dotnet tool install -g Cornhsu.PolyMigrate  # .NET

The npm build ships a self-contained native binary and only downloads the one matching your platform (win32-x64 / linux-x64 / darwin-x64 / darwin-arm64). Migrating a site is usually a one-off job — installing a whole SDK for a single run is friction most people won't accept, so the tool meets you where you are.

dotnet tool install -g Cornhsu.PolyMigrate
polymigrate extract site.yaml               # mirror HTML -> frontmatter Markdown + inventories
polymigrate verify out/                     # link/media/frontmatter audit, CI-friendly exit codes
polymigrate thumbs site.yaml                # EXIF-corrected, width-capped thumbnails
polymigrate probe-orphans site.yaml --section news --years 2021-2023
polymigrate fetch-orphans site.yaml --section news

One YAML config per site describes everything site-specific — see examples/ibps-austin.yaml for a fully-annotated real example.

config_version: 1
site:
  base_url: https://legacy.example.org
url_pattern:
  lang_map: { ch: zh-Hant, en: en }     # any number of languages
  default_lang: zh-Hant
  strip_extensions: [.php]
extract:
  content: "section[id]:not(#header):not(#footer)"
pairing:
  strategy: symmetric_path
  fallback: [shared_media, date, title_similarity]

Layout

Development

dotnet build
dotnet test
dotnet run --project src/PolyMigrate.Cli -- --help

License: MIT. All dependencies are MIT/BSD/Apache-2.0 (imaging via Magick.NET; ImageSharp was dropped when its 4.x line began requiring a license key at build time).