The goal is to have a script that exports an entire Posterous blog to disk, formatted in such a way to easily drop into the _posts folder of popular static site generators such as Octopress. This Tumblr to Markdown script is an example of similar functionality.

• "just works" on Mac OS X
• edit file or pass in username / API tokens on the command line
• output all posts as individual Markdown-formatted text files
• support for categories
• download and locally store Posterous-hosted images