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import script for 20six/myblog
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:11 am
by oliof
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
Re: import script for 20six/myblog
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:37 pm
by garvinhicking
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
Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 9:18 pm
by judebert
Do you have any access to the blog other than through its web interface? Shell, control panel, SQL, PHPMyAdmin?
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 10:08 am
by oliof
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
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 10:08 pm
by judebert
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.