import script for 20six/myblog

oliof · Post by **oliof** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:11 am

Hello,
I am helping a friend to get the world's best blog. At the time being, he is stuck with 20six.net/myblog.de, which has no export function whatsoever.

Did anyone write an import script for this? I am not happily looking forward reinventing the wheel for one and a half years worth of blogging.

Regards,
Harald

Post by **garvinhicking** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:37 pm

Hi!

Sadly I haven't heard of that. You could use the generic RSS feed import, but then you only get the latest X articles of the blog of course.

Without an export, it's quite hard to write an import.

Best regards,
Garvin

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Fri May 18, 2007 9:18 pm

Do you have any access to the blog other than through its web interface? Shell, control panel, SQL, PHPMyAdmin?

oliof · Post by **oliof** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:08 am

no, nothing. the service is quite limited on the export side, kinda locked-in.

At the time being it looks like a manual import could be the easiest.

Generic RSS import works fine, but 20six/myblog does not sport comment feeds, which would yet need another import path.

Some major regex hackery might do the heavy lifting, although this is far from perfect (dos linebreaks need to be cleared up, gratuitous <br /> tags, the list goes on).

Regards,
Harald

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:08 pm

Yowsa. "You will use our blog, and ONLY our blog. You will be forever chained to our website." Cue the evil laughter.

The only other thing I can think of is writing a screen-scraper to pull the entries down. Ick.

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