Migrating only articles with a specific taxonomy term

Question

In the source D7, i have a content type 'article' containing a reference to a 'category' taxonomy vocabulary term.

In the target D8, I have a content type 'article' as well, but i only want to import those nodes whose 'category' reference does not equal 'interview' ('interview' is one of its terms).

Also, in the target D8, i have a content type 'interview' to which i want to import all D7's 'article' nodes whose 'category' reference equals 'interview'.

Any ideas how to condition this?

Answer 1

Besides setting up a process plugin for the migrate import mapping (via code) as suggested by Berdir in the comments, another option is to setup a views data export on the legacy site to output only the select articles or "interviews".

This approach also allows non-database admins or developers to easily audit the content being migrated (because you can setup an alternative view display as a webpage, or excel spreadsheet, for use as a checklist).

To setup a view in JSON format:

• install the Views Data Export module
• install one of the add-on modules for JSON, such as Services Views or Views Data Source.

Refer to this StackOverflow answer/post about setting up a JSON view display mode.