[Web4lib] Exporting RSS Source from a Blog

[Alnisa Allgood]

Sorry, just notice Grouper is PHP. What programming languages besides
Java are on your server?

Another option is to use the Export Plugin and export to XML
http://wiki.blojsom.com/wiki/display/blojsom/Export+Blog+Plugin

I would assume there is a plugin somewhere that will allow you to
import xml files into WordPress.  I'm an Expression Engine girl
myself, and I use FeedGrab, CVSGrab, and XMLGrab to pull in data to my
site and clients sites all the time.

If your not tied to WordPress, you could just grab the free or
nonprofit version of Expression Engine  (free is free, nonprofit is
$99).

Alnisa

On 5/6/08, Alnisa Allgood <alnisa at nonprofit-tech.org> wrote:
> 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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