Re: import from blogspot

Matthew East on 2006-04-29 12:24:28 +0100:

> > WordPress has instructions [1] on converting; apparently there's a way
> > to export blogger/blogspot posts.  It should be straightforward to
> > convert a dump of the posts to PyBlosxom's post format.
> 
> Thanks for the reply! Once I've followed the instructions in that page,
> do you know how to import the posts in PyBlosxom's post format?

No clue, never used blogger/blogspot.  PyBlosxom's post format is
pretty simple - the first line is the post title, lines beginning with
"#" set options, and everything else is interpreted with the post
parser, which by default doesn't do anything.

> I'm conscious that the time/date of modifying the files is taken as
> the time of the post, and I don't want to muck up all the timings. I
> suppose I could touch the files manually, but if someone has figured
> out how to do this before me, that would be quicker :)

I suggest you use one of the time/data plugins in the registry rather
than using the file's modified time.  I use pyfilenamemtime and have
been very happy with it - you append -YYYY-MM-DD-HH-MM (date +%F-%H-%M)
to the post's filename before the extension and PyBlosxom uses that
instead of the file's modified time.

> The other way of getting my blogger posts would be to use the xml feed
> that it produces, do you know if there is a script around to take one of
> these and import them into the PyBlosxom format?

I don't believe there is one written.

You're going to need to write your own code.  If you're not up to
scripting a direct converter, I wrote a WordPress->PyBlosxom converter
[1]; you could follow WordPress' import instructions and then go from
there to PyBlosxom.


[1] http://darcs.thened.net/?r=pyblosxom;a=headblob;f=/scripts/wp-to-pyblosxom.py

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