[Web4lib] Exporting RSS Source from a Blog

[The Ford Library at Fuqua]

Thanks to everyone on both WEB4LIB and CODE4LIB who responded -- especially
to those who sent step-by-step procedures.

Even if I couldn't use what you shared for this problem, I learned some
things which could help in the future, and which motivated me to dig deeper
myself.

After digging around some more in the Blojsom wiki, I located a plugin
called fetcher-helper<http://wiki.blojsom.com/wiki/display/blojsom/Fetcher+Helper+Plugin>which
lets you (re)set the default number of posts served as RSS 2.0 from
your blog. Once that was deployed that in the correct file and mapped in the
Blojsom Admin GUI, I was able to retrieve the posts I needed in valid RSS
2.0!

All that's left now is some category clean-up, and uploading to WordPress to
complete the migration.

Thanks again!
-- 
Carlton Brown
Associate Director & IT Services Manager
Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business
Duke University


On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Alnisa Allgood <alnisa at nonprofit-tech.org>
wrote:

> 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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