Exporting Blog Contents as RSS 2.0 for Import

  • Resolved infogeek

    (@infogeek)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    We’re attempting to migrate content from our java-based Blojsom blog to WP. Blojsom does have an export blog plugin; but the output data is not in RSS 2.0 and would require more Perl than I know to convert.

    I know that WP can import data in RSS 2.0, and I can grab the RSS source of some posts by simply viewing/copying the source in my browser. But I need to migrate more than the limited number of posts that can be extracted by viewing the RSS source in the browser.

    Does anyone know of a tool or hack to extract or export the entire contents, or a large fixed number of posts from a blog as RSS 2.0? Google Reader and some others will grab a large number of posts; but I can’t view the RSS source.

    I’ve done considerable googling already and the few scripts/tools I’ve located call for PHP or Ruby — neither of which are deployed in our environment.

    Thanks in advance for any tips or pointers.

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  • Thread Starter infogeek

    (@infogeek)

    Answered with help from outside the WP Forums.

    After digging around some more in the Blojsom wiki, I located a plugin called fetcher-helper which lets you (re)set the default number of posts served as RSS 2.0 from your blog. Once that was deployed in the correct .vm file and mapped in the Blojsom Admin GUI, I was able to retrieve the posts I needed in valid RSS 2.0!

    All that’s left now is some category clean-up, and uploading to WordPress to complete the migration.

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