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ref GVA-917
ref Self-serve archives

Implements the sync delivery mode of the one-click data export, building on
the mockup that landed in #29915. With the
selfServeArchives flag on, "Export data" now really downloads a full site
archive: GET /ghost/api/admin/exports/download/ streams one zip composed of
content JSON, members CSV, post analytics CSV, per-theme zips, and
routes/redirects — everything except media, which stays reserved for the host
(async) mode that isn't part of this PR (its dialog branch remains mocked).

How the zip is composed

The orchestrator calls the same services the five standalone export endpoints
call — no HTTP self-calls, no background jobs, no duplicated controller logic:

flowchart LR
    UI["Export data dialog"] -- "GET /exports/download/?components=…" --> C["exports controller"]
    C --> SE["SiteExporter (services/exports)"]
    SE -- "doExport()" --> J["export.json"]
    SE -- "membersService.export({limit:'all'})" --> M["members.csv"]
    SE -- "postsService.export({limit:'all'})" --> A["post-analytics.csv"]
    SE -- "themeStorage.zipToFile()" --> T["themes/{name}.zip"]
    SE -- "routeSettings / customRedirects" --> R["routes.yaml + redirects.yaml"]
    J & M & A & T & R --> Z["archiver zip → streamed response"]
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Decisions worth reviewing:

  • Streamed, not staged. The zip pipes to the response while it's built, so
    memory stays flat and the download starts immediately. The price is failure
    semantics: once headers are sent, a component that fails to acquire can only
    be skipped (it's logged server-side and simply absent from the bundle). A
    mid-stream failure of a CSV source deliberately destroys the archive — a
    visibly broken download beats a silently incomplete one — and stream
    lifecycles are tied together in both directions so a dropped DB connection
    can't hang the response and a client disconnect can't pin a DB connection.
  • Restorable artifacts. export.json is byte-identical to the /db/
    download and themes are the exact zips the theme upload accepts, so every
    piece of the bundle restores through existing import surfaces.
  • Permissions reuse db.exportContent (Owner/Administrator only) instead of
    minting a new permission + migration: a site export contains everything a
    database export contains, so the same gate applies — and it's a superset of
    every composed component's own requirement.
  • Flag-only gating. The feature stays behind the selfServeArchives labs
    flag, and that flag is the whole gate — no config capability signal for
    deploy skew at this stage. If the flag graduates, feature detection can
    come back with the GA work.
  • Download is a fetch into a blob rather than the plain navigation the
    implementation plan proposed: a navigation download is unobservable from the
    page, which left the dialog stuck on "Preparing your export…" forever and
    swallowed errors. The blob approach gives the dialog a real "Export
    downloaded" state, error feedback with retry, and a working Cancel
    (AbortController). Browsers back large blobs with disk, so the zip doesn't
    have to fit in tab memory — which was the plan's original concern.

Testing

  • SiteExporter unit tests cover the failure paths: component skipping,
    partial themes, mid-stream teardown, client-abort cleanup.
  • E2E tests are split across two files by necessity: the 4xx cases
    (validation, labs gate, permissions) use the in-process agent, while the
    actual downloads run over real HTTP like the theme download tests — the
    in-process agent's mock socket never signals drain, deadlocking any
    streamed body larger than the write buffer.
  • The download test seeds more posts than the posts exporter's default page
    cap, guarding against the silent-truncation bug found in review (an
    unlimited export defaulted to 15 posts).
  • Admin acceptance tests cover both dialog modes, component selection, and
    the download-complete and download-failed states.
  • Verified end-to-end in the browser against a real Ghost instance: dialog →
    download → valid zip with all components. That click-through caught a real
    bug the fake-config acceptance tests couldn't: the config output serializer's
    key allowlist was stripping the capability signal.

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Adds component-selected site export archives as streamed ZIP downloads. The backend exposes an authenticated /exports/download endpoint with validation and permission checks. Admin migration tools call the endpoint with cancellation support and use backend capability configuration. Tests cover archive contents, permissions, validation, failures, cleanup, and UI behavior.

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ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/exports/site-exporter.test.ts (1)

161-214: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the fixed sleeps with event waits.

The three setTimeout(50) waits sequence these tests. On a loaded CI machine the archive may not have appended the entry yet, and the test then asserts the wrong state. Wait on observable events instead: the first data event on the archive before you destroy it, and once('close') before you assert source.destroyed and the theme cleanup.

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In `@ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/exports/site-exporter.test.ts` around
lines 161 - 214, The streaming archive tests use fixed 50ms sleeps, which can
race on slow CI. In the mid-flight error test, wait for the archive’s first data
event before writing and destroying source; in the disconnect test, wait for the
archive data event before destroying it, then await the archive close event
before asserting source.destroyed and staged theme cleanup.
ghost/core/core/server/services/exports/site-exporter.ts (1)

69-87: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Log archiver warning events.

archiver reports non-fatal problems through the warning event, not through error. An example is an ENOENT when archive.file() stats a staged theme zip that disappeared. Today that entry is silently missing from the ZIP while export-report.json still reports ok, and nothing is logged. Add a listener so these cases are observable.

♻️ Proposed addition
         const archive = new ZipArchive();
         const cleanups: Array<() => Promise<void>> = [];
 
+        archive.on('warning', (err: Error) => {
+            logging.warn(new errors.InternalServerError({
+                message: 'Site export: an entry was skipped by the archiver',
+                err
+            }));
+        });
+

Note: warning is not part of the narrowed Archiver declaration in ghost/core/core/server/services/exports/deps.d.ts, but Archiver extends Transform, so on accepts it.

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In `@ghost/core/core/server/services/exports/site-exporter.ts` around lines 69 -
87, Add a listener for archiver warning events in createArchive so non-fatal
archive problems are logged and observable, while preserving the existing close
cleanup and populate error handling. Use the Archiver instance’s inherited event
API despite the narrowed declaration in deps.d.ts.
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ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/index.js (1)

30-33: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/input/exports.js (1)

1-18: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/input/index.js (1)

6-9: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/output/exports.js (1)

1-18: LGTM!

apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/exports.ts (1)

1-12: LGTM!

apps/admin/src/settings/app/components/settings/advanced/migration-tools/migration-tools-export.tsx (1)

18-24: LGTM!

Also applies to: 42-42

apps/admin/src/settings/app/components/settings/advanced/migration-tools/export-all-modal.tsx (1)

14-14: LGTM!

Also applies to: 38-38, 68-80, 157-169

apps/admin/src/settings/advanced/migration-tools-export.acceptance.test.tsx (1)

24-40: LGTM!

Also applies to: 55-59, 61-73

packages/testing/test-data/src/fixtures/data/config.ts (1)

29-33: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/output/index.js (1)

31-34: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/web/api/endpoints/admin/routes.js (1)

292-294: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/output/config.js (1)

27-28: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/services/public-config/config.js (1)

69-71: 🎯 Functional Correctness

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Verify that the capability reflects the feature gate.

Line 70 sets exports.download to true for every instance. The route returns 404 when selfServeArchives is disabled. If Admin checks only config.exports.download, it can show a download action that cannot succeed.

Make the capability include the same feature gate, or confirm that Admin also requires config.labs.selfServeArchives.

ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/exports-download.test.js (1)

1-156: LGTM!

ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/exports.test.js (1)

1-63: LGTM!

ghost/core/test/e2e-api/admin/utils.js (1)

44-45: LGTM!

ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/public-config/config.test.js (1)

27-28: LGTM!

apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/config.ts (1)

111-126: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/csv-export-filename.js (1)

16-34: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/output/members-csv-transform.js (1)

16-46: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/output/members.js (1)

5-5: LGTM!

Also applies to: 369-381

pnpm-workspace.yaml (1)

191-191: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/services/themes/index.js (1)

34-34: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/services/themes/storage.js (1)

56-75: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/services/themes/theme-storage.js (1)

23-34: LGTM!

Also applies to: 51-51

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/exports.js (1)

38-48: 🩺 Stability & Availability

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Verify ZIP termination after a CSV source error.

pipeline() destroys transform when rows fails. This callback only logs the error. Confirm that SiteExporter observes the destroyed appended stream, aborts or finalizes the ZIP, and closes the HTTP response. Otherwise, a failed members or post-analytics export can leave the download open until the client times out.

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/output/stream-csv-response.ts (1)

1-2: LGTM!

Also applies to: 14-23

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/output/stream-response.ts (3)

25-32: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Sanitize filename before you put it in the header.

filename is interpolated into a quoted Content-Disposition value without escaping. A " or \ in the value breaks the quoted string, and a CR or LF makes res.setHeader throw ERR_INVALID_CHAR. This helper is shared by CSV and ZIP downloads, so sanitize once here.

🛡️ Proposed hardening
         res.setHeader('Content-Type', contentType);
-        res.setHeader('Content-Disposition', `Attachment; filename="${filename}"`);
+        const safeFilename = filename.replace(/[^\w.\-+ ]/g, '_');
+        res.setHeader('Content-Disposition', `Attachment; filename="${safeFilename}"`);

Run this script to confirm which values reach filename:


34-38: LGTM!


40-53: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/api/endpoints/utils/serializers/output/stream-zip-response.ts (1)

1-20: LGTM!

ghost/core/core/server/services/exports/deps.d.ts (1)

1-21: LGTM!

ghost/core/package.json (1)

143-143: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

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Confirm the archiver catalog entry exists.

The catalog: specifier is the correct convention here. catalogMode is strict, so pnpm install fails if pnpm-workspace.yaml has no archiver entry. pnpm-workspace.yaml is not in this cohort, so verify the entry and the resolved version.

As per coding guidelines: "Shared dependency versions are pinned in pnpm-workspace.yaml under catalog:catalogMode is strict".

ghost/core/core/server/services/exports/site-exporter.ts (5)

89-115: LGTM!


123-149: LGTM!


163-174: LGTM!


183-202: LGTM!


204-232: LGTM!

ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/exports/site-exporter.test.ts (3)

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Verify that require resolves in this Vitest module.

This file uses ESM import statements, so Vitest transforms it as ESM. In an ESM module require is not defined by default, and the suite then fails at load time. Confirm the repository provides the interop, or use createRequire.


11-69: LGTM!


72-159: LGTM!

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Nitpick comments:
In `@ghost/core/core/server/services/exports/site-exporter.ts`:
- Around line 69-87: Add a listener for archiver warning events in createArchive
so non-fatal archive problems are logged and observable, while preserving the
existing close cleanup and populate error handling. Use the Archiver instance’s
inherited event API despite the narrowed declaration in deps.d.ts.

In `@ghost/core/test/unit/server/services/exports/site-exporter.test.ts`:
- Around line 161-214: The streaming archive tests use fixed 50ms sleeps, which
can race on slow CI. In the mid-flight error test, wait for the archive’s first
data event before writing and destroying source; in the disconnect test, wait
for the archive data event before destroying it, then await the archive close
event before asserting source.destroyed and staged theme cleanup.

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apps/admin/src/settings/advanced/migration-tools-export.acceptance.test.tsx (1)

88-101: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the error message.

Lines 99-101 only verify the retry state. They do not verify that the failed download displays an error. Assert the default error toast so this test covers its stated behavior.

Proposed test update
         // Back on the selection so the user can retry
         await expect.element(dialog.getByRole("button", {name: "Export", exact: true})).toBeVisible();
         await expect.element(dialog.getByText("Export downloaded", {exact: false})).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+        await expect.element(page.getByText("Something went wrong, please try again.")).toBeVisible();
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@sagzy sagzy changed the title Added the sync mode of the one-click site export Added 1-click exports in sync mode (without media assets) Aug 13, 2026
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sagzy force-pushed the 1-click-export-sync-mode branch 3 times, most recently from d96909c to 5ed574f Compare August 14, 2026 09:34
sagzy added 13 commits August 18, 2026 11:33
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/GVA-921/1-click-export-uxui

Self-hosters have no way to take everything out of Ghost in one go:
today a full export means clicking through five separate downloads
(content JSON, members CSV, post analytics CSV, per-theme zips,
routes/redirects files) and knowing they all exist. The one-click
export plan gives everyone a single "Export data" flow; this adds the
delivery mode that works on every install with no host infrastructure:
GET /ghost/api/admin/exports/download/ streams one zip composed from
the same services the individual export endpoints already call.

- The orchestrator (services/exports) appends each selected component
  to an archiver STORE stream that pipes straight to the response, so
  memory stays flat and the download starts immediately. No HTTP
  self-calls and no background jobs — in-process service calls only.
- A component that fails before its data is acquired is skipped and
  recorded in export-report.json rather than failing the request:
  once headers are sent a mid-stream HTTP error is impossible, and a
  bundle missing one piece beats a broken download.
- `media` is rejected by validation. Media is exactly the component
  that forces background jobs and email delivery, so it is reserved
  for the host-webhook mode (not part of this change).
- The endpoint reuses the db.exportContent permission (Owner/Admin
  only) instead of minting a new permission: a site export contains
  everything a database export contains, so the same gate applies and
  no migration is needed while the feature is behind a labs flag.
- export.json matches the /db/ download byte-for-byte and themes are
  nested per-theme zips, so every artifact in the bundle restores
  through the existing import surfaces.
- The members CSV transform moves out of the members output serializer
  into its own module (mirroring posts-csv-transform) so the
  orchestrator can reuse it without duplicating the CSV logic.

The download e2e tests drive a real HTTP server rather than the
in-process agent: the zip streams with backpressure, and the test
agent's mock socket never signals drain, deadlocking any response
body larger than the write buffer.
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/GVA-921/1-click-export-uxui

The sync branch of the "Export data" dialog was a static mockup: a
timer pretended to prepare an export and downloaded an empty zip.
It now requests /exports/download/ with the selected components as a
plain navigation, so the browser's download manager streams the zip
to disk — a large export never sits in tab memory, which is why the
navigation approach was chosen over the fetch-into-blob helper. The
dialog can't observe a navigation download finishing, so the fake
"done" state is gone; the confirmation tells the user the download
has started and can be watched in the browser.

The async (host-webhook) branch of the dialog stays mocked — its
backend is a separate piece of work.
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/GVA-921/1-click-export-uxui

A critical review of the sync export surfaced two silent-data-loss
bugs, a hang, and several robustness and duplication issues:

- The analytics CSV silently contained only 15 posts: the posts
  exporter falls back to its default page cap when no limit is given.
  Both CSV exports now pass `limit: 'all'` — the same call the
  standalone endpoints make — which also keeps the members exporter on
  its streaming path instead of materialising every member id into a
  WHERE IN. The download e2e test now seeds more posts than the
  default cap so a regression cannot pass unnoticed.
- A CSV source erroring mid-stream (e.g. a dropped DB connection)
  hung the response forever: archiver wraps sources with `.pipe()`,
  which never propagates errors. Streaming entries now tie their
  lifecycle to the archive in both directions — a source error
  destroys the archive (failing the download instead of hanging), and
  a destroyed archive (client hung up) destroys the sources, so a
  paused row stream releases its DB connection instead of holding it
  for the client's whole download.
- A repeated `components` query param (an array after qs parsing)
  crashed query() with a 500, and an explicitly empty `components=`
  exported everything. The param is now normalized in an input
  serializer; empty selections are rejected with a 422.
- The zip now uses deflate (the JSON/CSV entries compress 5-10x) with
  per-entry STORE only for the nested theme zips, and theme zips are
  staged as temp files streamed off disk rather than buffered — many
  large themes no longer multiply resident memory. Theme zipping moved
  into ThemeStorage so the export and the theme download endpoint
  can't drift apart, and theme names are validated against the theme
  list on the way.
- The streaming CSVs are appended before the buffered content JSON so
  their DB connections drain first, and export-report.json entries
  carry a status object (`ok`/`partial`/`failed` plus the skipped
  names) so a partially-exported themes component no longer reads as
  wholesale failure.
- Admin now feature-detects the endpoint via a config capability
  signal (`exports.download`) instead of trusting the labs flag alone
  — Admin and core deploy independently, and a labs flag can be forced
  on an older core via config or remote overrides. With the signal
  absent the legacy export buttons stay. The dialog's download call
  moved into admin-x-framework's api layer with the other download
  helpers, and the post-download dialog state shows a spinner instead
  of a premature success check.
- The zip and CSV stream responses share one helper now instead of
  two near-verbatim copies, and SiteExporter's failure paths are unit
  tested (skip-and-report, partial themes, mid-stream teardown,
  client-abort cleanup).
The config output serializer picks an explicit key allowlist, so the
`exports` capability signal added to the public-config service was
silently stripped from the /config/ response — Admin's deploy-skew
gate read it as absent and kept the legacy export buttons even on a
core that serves the endpoint. Caught by clicking through the flow
against a real Ghost instance; the admin acceptance tests use a fake
config response, which is exactly why the pick list slipped past them.
The report added bookkeeping to every export to describe the rare
failed one, and its promise was shaky anyway: a component that fails
mid-stream tears the whole download down rather than being recorded,
so the report could only ever describe acquisition-time failures.
Server-side logging already covers diagnosing those. A failed
component is now simply absent from the bundle.
The archive's close handler runs its registered cleanups the moment
the client hangs up — a theme zip still being staged at that point
registered its cleanup too late and leaked its temp dir, and staging
kept going against a dead archive. The exporter now stops staging
once the archive is destroyed and removes a late-finishing theme zip
immediately; the same guard covers a CSV stream acquired after the
archive closed, which would otherwise keep its DB connection.

Also swapped the fixed sleeps in the exporter unit tests for event
and condition waits, so a slow CI machine can't assert mid-append.
The download was a plain iframe navigation, which a page cannot
observe: the "Preparing your export…" state stayed on screen forever,
even after the zip had landed — and a failed request was equally
invisible. The dialog now downloads through the fetch-based blob
helper, so it reaches a real "Export downloaded" state, surfaces
errors (returning to the selection for a retry), and Cancel actually
aborts the request. Browsers back large blobs with disk, so the zip
does not have to fit in tab memory — which was the original reason
for choosing the navigation approach.
Extracting the shared stream-response helper genericized the guard
message to "Missing export filename", but the posts CSV serializer
unit test pins the original "Missing CSV export filename" — and the
CSV endpoints should behave exactly as before the refactor. The
message is now a per-format parameter on the shared helper.
Trimmed every comment that narrated what the code already says and
kept only the constraints the code cannot show: archiver's .pipe()
error swallowing, the close-during-staging races, why the CSVs pass
limit 'all', and the deploy-skew capability signal. Also asserted the
error toast in the failed-download acceptance test, so the error path
is verified end to end rather than only by the retry state.
The name-validation branch of the themes storage zipToFile was only
reachable through the site export e2e flow, whose coverage codecov
does not see.
The sync export is staying behind the selfServeArchives labs flag, so
the flag is the whole gate: a config capability signal for deploy
skew adds a moving part the feature doesn't need at this stage. If
the flag ever graduates while Admin and core still deploy
independently, feature detection can come back with the GA work.
The export's whole point is that every artifact restores through an
existing import surface, so the e2e suite now proves it: the
downloaded zip's export.json goes back through the universal
importer, members.csv through the members importer, a theme zip
through the theme upload, and routes.yaml/redirects.yaml through
their uploads — all against the real endpoints. A format drift in
any of the five artifacts now fails CI instead of surfacing as a
broken restore.
The ambient module declaration types every archiver import in
ghost/core, not just the site exporter's, but its comment read as if
it were local to one service. It now says so and points the next
caller at extending it here, instead of leaving them to hunt down why
tsc rejects parts of the real archiver API.
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sagzy force-pushed the 1-click-export-sync-mode branch from 5ed574f to 93d8fb6 Compare August 18, 2026 09:33
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Closing in favour of stacked PRs

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