Migrating to Ghost: How to generate primary ID for posts and other entities?

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Hi,

I am migrating to Ghost from database with integer auto-increment IDs (1,2,3,…). I see ghost uses IDs like 625f1cb98b49f500010f1903. What type of ID is that and how can I generate it?

Thanks

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With NodeJS and UUID library installed you can do something like this :

import { v4 } from 'uuid';
const ghostId = v4().replace(/-/g, '').slice(0, 24);
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It’s a “BSON ObjectID”. Ghost uses bson-objectid to generate them.