Developer Builds Importer to Move Facebook Boat-Build Posts into a Dated Laravel Log
A developer building Boat Build Log, a site for documenting boat construction, wrote a tool to import builders' existing posts so they don't have to retype years of updates. The case study is Jim Norman's 20-foot houseboat Jersey Girl, built from 2015 and documented through a public Facebook Page. The importer, run as a reusable Laravel Artisan command, takes harvested posts in a standard JSON format and turns them into dated entries. A core rule is that entry dates come from the original post date and are never overwritten by photo metadata, which is often unreliable after re-encoding. Entries missing a date are refused rather than defaulted to the current day. The imported Jersey Girl build now contains 191 entries and 568 photos spanning March 2015 to August 2025.
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