Well it seems there is hope that Blogger can make such a service available through our Blogger dashboards soon enough! Today the Google Code blog announced the Google Blog Converters project: an open source project which aims to make available the ability to import/export feeds from many different blog platforms:
This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress.
In addition, the source code includes templates for hosting these conversions on Google App Engine. Future additions to the project will include support for BlogML and synchronization tools between various services that do not provide a import/export feature but do provide APIs for accessing and modifying blog contents.
At present, the scripts provided by the Blog Converters Project are not so user friendly for those unfamiliar with scripting languages (though I hope those of you fluent in Python or familiar with the Google App engine may be able to make significantly more progress than I have!).
Instead, you may be better advised to check out these existing online projects if you need to convert a blog from another host over to your Blogger blog:
- Wordpress2Blogger - Import posts from a Wordpress blog to your Blogger account
- LiveJournal2Blogger - Import posts from a LiveJournal blog to your Blogger blog
Please feel free to leave any comments or suggestions about this project below.
9 comments:
alright...i've followed the instructions in wordpress2blogger down to a T, and then when i imported the converted blogger xml file, i got this message: "sorry the import failed due to a server error. the code is bX-xxxx" (the xxxx changes every time). What do i do wrong? and will we EVER be able to import ANYthing to blogger? my email is mu99le@gmail.com. thanks!
Nice post amanda, i would like to try importing my wordpress blog to Blogger blogspot in case if there is any unwanted thing happen on my domain host. Thanks amanda
If your file is larger then 1 meg, simply host the conversion program on another site. If you goto the blog conversion site on Google, there are all the files you need to run it yourself without the restriction. You just need to know what you are doing. ;)
Has anyone come across a way to import only comments? Scenario: I wrote a blogger blog on my own domain, via ftp for years before commenting was available through Blogger. Many of my old posts had comments via BlogKomm, which is a great script. But I'd like to be able to import them into my Blogger blog now that it's hosted on BlogSpot. Any thoughts?
terima kasih amanda, waktu pertama kali import wordpress saya , gagal terus....tapi akhirnya berhasil juga setelah saya membaca artikel amanda ini,
terima kasih..
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