Content Migration

Industry

Definition

Content migration is the process of moving content from one platform or system to another. It involves extracting content from the source, transforming it to match the target format, and loading it into the new system.

How It Relates to CrawlForge

Content migration projects often involve thousands of pages stored in legacy CMS platforms. Manual copy-paste is error-prone and time-consuming. The content needs to be extracted while preserving formatting, metadata, images, and internal links.

CrawlForge crawl_deep discovers all pages on the source site, and extract_content converts each page to clean markdown or structured text. This automated approach handles bulk migrations that would take weeks manually, completing them in hours.

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Related Terms

Web Scraping

Web scraping is the automated extraction of data from websites. It involves programmatically fetching web pages and parsing their content to collect structured information.

Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that uses plain text formatting syntax. It is widely used for documentation, content creation, and as a clean intermediate format for extracted web content.

HTML Parsing

HTML parsing is the process of analyzing HTML markup to extract its structure and content. Parsers convert raw HTML strings into navigable tree structures that programs can query and manipulate.

Data Pipeline

A data pipeline is an automated sequence of steps that collects, processes, transforms, and delivers data from sources to destinations. It enables continuous data flow between systems without manual intervention.

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