[Web4lib] Exporting RSS Source from a Blog

Rick Mason rcmason at rsproductions.net
Mon May 5 18:39:49 EDT 2008


I can't vouch for whether it works, but a Google search for "blojsom to 
wordpress" nets this blog post about a conversion tool:

http://blog.steamshift.com/developing/importing-blojsom-data-into-wordpress
or
http://tinyurl.com/4dcz9o

Hope this helps!

Rick

The Ford Library at Fuqua wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> We're attempting to migrate our java-based Blojsom blog to the more
> user-friendly WordPress software. WordPress has built import wizards for
> many popular blog platforms; but there isn't one for Blojsom which is
> different from *bloxsom* which does have an import wizard. Blojsom does have
> an export blog plugin; but the data is not in RSS 2.0 and would require more
> Perl than I know to convert.
>
> 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 - 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.
>
> Thanks in advance for any tips or pointers.


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