[Web4lib] Exporting RSS Source from a Blog

[Alnisa Allgood]

Hi-

Try looking for a good website scrapping tool. Most will follow ever
link on a website and convert to RSS or XML.  I haven't used it but,
there's Grouper by GeckoTribe at
http://www.geckotribe.com/rss/grouper/ otherwise, I'd search on
Website Scraper RSS

Alnisa




On 5/6/08, The Ford Library at Fuqua <fordlibweb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Rick,
>
> I've actually done quite a bit of googling and looked at this already. Its
> in PHP which isn't deployed in the server environment where our old blog
> lives and it also requires Pear DB which isn't there either. I don't have
> the rights to deploy them and doing so to convert a blog is more overhead
> than our IT group wants to expend.
> Thanks again for googling.
> --
> Carlton Brown
> Associate Director & IT Services Manager
> Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business
> Duke University
>
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Rick Mason <rcmason at rsproductions.net>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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