Backup Squarespace code Injections to Github

For Squarespace, this automated workflow backs up header and footer code injections to GitHub every 2 hours, ensuring your website's customizations are securely stored and easily retrievable. It simplifies the backup process, reduces manual effort, and enhances data security, allowing you to focus on your content without worrying about losing important code changes.

7/8/2025
17 nodes
Complex
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Target Audience

This workflow is designed for:
- Web Developers who manage Squarespace sites and need to backup header and footer code injections to GitHub regularly.
- Digital Marketers who require a systematic way to archive website changes for compliance or record-keeping.
- Small Business Owners using Squarespace, providing them a safety net for their website customizations.
- Technical Teams looking for automation in their development workflow, ensuring that all changes are tracked and stored efficiently.

Problem Solved

This workflow addresses the challenge of managing and backing up Squarespace code injections. It automates the process of fetching header and footer injections from a Squarespace site and storing them in a GitHub repository. This ensures that users:
- Avoid data loss by regularly saving their custom code.
- Maintain version control, allowing them to revert to previous versions of their code if needed.
- Streamline updates to their website by having a reliable backup system in place.

Workflow Steps

  • Triggering the Workflow: The workflow can be initiated either manually by clicking 'execute' or automatically every 2 hours via a scheduled trigger.
    2. Fetching Squarespace Data: The workflow retrieves the site's header and footer injections using an HTTP request to the Squarespace URL.
    3. Cleaning Up the Data: The fetched data is then processed:
    - Clean up Footers: Unwanted elements are removed from the footer data to ensure only relevant information is stored.
    - Clean up Headers: Similar cleaning is performed on the header data, ensuring that only necessary code remains.
    4. Merging Injections: The cleaned header and footer data are merged into a single output for further processing.
    5. Looping Over Items: The workflow processes the merged data in batches of 2 to manage multiple injections efficiently.
    6. Setting Global Variables: Global variables for GitHub repository details are set, including owner, name, and path.
    7. Creating or Editing Injection Data: Depending on whether the injection data already exists, the workflow either creates new files or edits existing ones in the GitHub repository, with appropriate commit messages indicating the backup time.

    • Customization Guide

    Users can customize this workflow by:
    - Modifying the Squarespace URL: Update the Get Squarespace data node to point to the specific Squarespace site you wish to back up.
    - Adjusting GitHub Repository Details: In the Globals node, change the values for repo.owner, repo.name, and repo.path to match your GitHub account and desired repository structure.
    - Changing Backup Frequency: Adjust the Schedule Trigger node to change how often the backup occurs, whether it's every 2 hours, daily, or at specific times.
    - Customizing the Clean-Up Logic: Modify the JavaScript code in the Clean up Footers and Clean up Headers nodes to include or exclude specific elements based on your needs.

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