diff --git a/lib/posts.php b/lib/posts.php
index cfc60fe..563dc5c 100644
--- a/lib/posts.php
+++ b/lib/posts.php
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ class posts {
         $db->query("DELETE FROM posts WHERE id=?", $post->id);
 
         $text_ids = [];
-        $q = $db->query("SELECT id FROM posts_texts WHERE post_id=?");
+        $q = $db->query("SELECT id FROM posts_texts WHERE post_id=?", $post->id);
         while ($row = $db->fetch($q))
             $text_ids = $row['id'];
         previous_texts::delete(PreviousText::TYPE_POST_TEXT, $text_ids);
diff --git a/lib/uploads.php b/lib/uploads.php
index ccb368d..1743d01 100644
--- a/lib/uploads.php
+++ b/lib/uploads.php
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ class uploads {
         return in_array($ext, UPLOADS_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS);
     }
 
-    static function add(string $tmp_name, string $name, string $note_en, string $note_ru, string $source_url = ''): ?int {
+    static function add(string $tmp_name,
+                        string $name,
+                        string $note_en = '',
+                        string $note_ru = '',
+                        string $source_url = ''): ?int {
         global $config;
 
         $name = sanitize_filename($name);
@@ -61,7 +65,7 @@ class uploads {
         chmod($dir, 0775); // g+w
 
         rename($tmp_name, $path);
-        chmod($path, 0664); // g+w
+        setperm($path);
 
         return $id;
     }
@@ -138,6 +142,16 @@ class uploads {
         }
     }
 
+    static function getUploadBySourceUrl(string $source_url): ?Upload {
+        $db = DB();
+        $q = $db->query("SELECT * FROM uploads WHERE source_url=? LIMIT 1", $source_url);
+        if ($db->numRows($q)) {
+            return new Upload($db->fetch($q));
+        } else {
+            return null;
+        }
+    }
+
     static function _getNewUploadRandomId(): string {
         $db = DB();
         do {
diff --git a/tools/import_article.php b/tools/import_article.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..51dfc89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/import_article.php
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env php
+<?php
+
+require_once __DIR__.'/../init.php';
+
+$options = getInput();
+$content = [];
+$langs = ['ru', 'en'];
+foreach ($langs as $lang) {
+    checkFile($options[$lang]);
+    $content[$lang] = processImages(file_get_contents($options[$lang]));
+}
+
+$post = posts::add([
+    'keywords' => '',
+    'visible' => false,
+    'short_name' => $options['short-name'],
+    'date' => '2025-01-01',
+    'source_url' => '',
+]);
+if (!$post)
+    cli::die("failed to create post");
+
+foreach ($langs as $lang) {
+    $text = $post->addText(
+        lang: PostLanguage::from($lang),
+        title: $options[$lang.'-title'],
+        md: $content[$lang],
+        keywords: '',
+        toc: false);
+    if (!$text) {
+        posts::delete($post);
+        cli::die("failed to create post text");
+    }
+}
+
+echo "done\n";
+exit(0);
+
+
+function getInput() {
+    global $argv;
+
+    $usage = "usage: $argv[0] --ru ./ru.txt --en ./en.txt --ru-title TITLE --en-title TITLE\n";
+    $option_names = ['ru', 'en', 'ru-title', 'en-title', 'short-name'];
+    $options = getopt('', array_map(fn($o) => $o.':', $option_names));
+    foreach ($option_names as $option_name) {
+        if (!isset($options[$option_name])) {
+            fwrite(STDERR, "error: missing option '$option_name'\n");
+            fwrite(STDERR, $usage);
+            exit(1);
+        }
+    }
+    return $options;
+}
+
+function checkFile($file) {
+    if (!file_exists($file)) {
+        fwrite(STDERR, "error: file $file does not exist\n");
+        exit(1);
+    }
+}
+
+function processImages($md) {
+    return preg_replace_callback(
+        '/!\[.*?\]\((https?:\/\/[^\s)]+)\)/',
+        function ($matches) {
+            $url = $matches[1];
+
+            $parsed_url = parse_url($url);
+            $clean_url = $parsed_url['scheme'] . '://' . $parsed_url['host'] . $parsed_url['path'];
+
+            $upload = uploads::getUploadBySourceUrl($clean_url);
+            if (!$upload) {
+                $name = basename($clean_url);
+                $ext = extension($clean_url);
+                $tmp = sys_get_temp_dir().'/'.uniqid(rand(), true).'.'.$ext;
+                if (!copy($clean_url, $tmp)) {
+                    logError('failed to download '.$clean_url.' to '.$tmp);
+                    return $matches[0];
+                }
+                $upload_id = uploads::add($tmp, $name, source_url: $clean_url);
+                $upload = uploads::get($upload_id);
+                // $tmp file has already been deleted by uploads::add() at this point
+            } else {
+                logDebug('found existing upload with source_url='.$clean_url);
+            }
+
+            return $upload->getMarkdown();
+        },
+        $md
+    );
+}
\ No newline at end of file