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Migrate your blogger blog posts to jekyll.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Convert blogger (blogspot) posts to jekyll posts
#
# Basic Usage
# -----------
#
# ruby blogger_to_jekyll.rb feed_url
#
# where `feed_url` can have the following format:
#
# http://{your_blog_name}.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
#
# Requirements
# ------------
#
# * feedzirra: https://github.com/pauldix/feedzirra
#
require 'feedzirra'
require 'date'
require 'optparse'
def parse_post_entries(feed, verbose)
posts = []
feed.entries.each do |post|
obj = Hash.new
created_datetime = post.last_modified
creation_date = Date.strptime(created_datetime.to_s, "%Y-%m-%d")
title = post.title
file_name = creation_date.to_s + "-" + title.split(/ */).join("-").delete('\/') + ".html"
obj["file_name"] = file_name
obj["title"] = title
obj["creation_datetime"] = created_datetime
obj["content"] = post.content
posts.push(obj)
end
return posts
end
def write_posts(posts, verbose)
Dir.mkdir("_posts") unless File.directory?("_posts")
total = posts.length, i = 1
posts.each do |post|
file_name = "_posts/".concat(post["file_name"])
header = %{---
layout: post
title: #{post["title"]}
date: #{post["creation_datetime"]}
comments: false
categories:
---
%}
File.open(file_name, "w+") {|f|
f.write(header)
f.write(post["content"])
f.close
}
if verbose
puts " [#{i}/#{total[0]}] Written post #{file_name}"
i += 1
end
end
end
def main
options = {}
opt_parser = OptionParser.new do |opt|
opt.banner = "Usage: blogger_to_jekyll.rb FEED_URL [OPTIONS]"
opt.separator ""
opt.separator "Options"
opt.on("-v", "--verbose", "Print out all.") do
options[:verbose] = true
end
end
opt_parser.parse!
if ARGV[0]
feed_url = ARGV.first
else
puts opt_parser
exit()
end
puts "Fetching feed #{feed_url}..."
feed = Feedzirra::Feed.fetch_and_parse(feed_url)
puts "Parsing feed..."
posts = parse_post_entries(feed, options[:verbose])
puts "Writing posts to _posts/..."
write_posts(posts, options[:verbose])
puts "Done!"
end
main()
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ahamid commented Dec 30, 2011

thanks this worked for me

@kennym
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kennym commented Dec 30, 2011 via email

@joshuatbrown
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Worked for me - thanks!

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bebraw commented Apr 23, 2012

I had to add require ''rubygems" before feedzirra to make the script work on OS X Lion.

I also had to change the way dates are parsed like this:

created_datetime = post.updated
creation_date = Date.parse(created_datetime.to_s)

I guess the Blogger RSS format must have changed at some point or something.

@kennym
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kennym commented Apr 23, 2012

That's quite probable. I am glad to receive patches.

@bebraw
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bebraw commented Apr 23, 2012

Gotcha. I threw in the changes at my fork. Feel free to merge. Might want to test first to make sure I didn't bork things up (I'm a Pythonista :) ).

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kennym commented Apr 23, 2012

I just merged your changes. Sorry, that I couldn't figure out a way to keep the credits, but your work is most appreciated! Thank you, sir

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bebraw commented Apr 23, 2012

No probs. Thanks. :)

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bebraw commented Apr 23, 2012

Hi, one more thing... I noticed it is better to use "created_datetime = post.published" instead of "created_datetime = post.updated". Might want to change that in your gist. You might want to store the updated time in YAML front matter btw. Probably doesn't hurt.

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kennym commented Apr 23, 2012

You might want to store the updated time in YAML front matter btw. Probably doesn't hurt.

You lost me. YAML?

@bebraw
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bebraw commented Apr 24, 2012

See this. It's just that little snippet in front of a page.

I updated my Gist to contain the change mentioned above. Feel free to merge.

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kennym commented Apr 24, 2012

Merged. :)

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basav commented Aug 6, 2012

Thanks for this gist. Works

@jorgeramirez
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After changing Config to RbConfig it worked. Thanks!

@coolaj86
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FYI, if you'd also like to migrate the comments: http://blog.coolaj86.com/articles/migrate-from-blogger-to-ruhoh-with-proper-redirects.html

This requires changing your template (explained in the walkthrough) and exporting a backup of your blog (also explained in the walkthrough)

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mpenkov commented Nov 1, 2013

Thanks for this script! Everything worked well, except the handling of colon characters in the title. They make Jekyll fall over and die, for some reason. Relevant: jekyll/jekyll#549

@nikhil91
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thanks:)

@shiv4289
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Hi Kennym,

Worked for me. Works like a charm. But I had some trouble because the feedzirra module is now renamed to feedjira.
You need to update the script to show that. I did the same and I could do the import then.

I have one question though: I lost the comments I had on blogger in the process. How do I migrate the comments?

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raphink commented Aug 13, 2014

+1 for feedjira

@DrizzlingCattus
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thanks for script!
when I rename feedzirra to feedjira, it work.
but feeds/posts/default option parse only some part of all my posts.
so, I change feeds/posts/default to feeds/posts/default?max-results=100 and it parse all my post.

I link about parsing all post.
http://too-clever-by-half.blogspot.kr/2011/12/blog-feed-500-post-limit-for-more-than.html

@danielgomezrico
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I´m getting blogspot_to_jekyll.rb:25:in

': Use RbConfig instead of obsolete and deprecated Config.
blogspot_to_jekyll.rb:27:in <main>': uninitialized constant CONFIG (NameError) after rename it to feedjira, why?

@lolobosse
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@danielgomezrico I got the same problem and solved it on my fork @kennym if you want, you can update yours from my code 😄 👍

@mwschwehr
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Hi kennym,
Great code. Worked for me on Yosemite with some minor changes.

I removed the deprecated CONFIG call. I think rubygems is now required for El Capitan anyway.

Feedzirra is now called feedjira, so I made the appropriate changes in the code.

After these two minor changes, the code worked perfectly 10.11.3

Feel free to do a pull and merge. In my commit message, i inadvertently stated I was updated for Yosemite. This is my first fork, edit, and push of code on Git, and my first time working in Ruby.

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savita20 commented May 3, 2018

Even I need help to migrate my blog 'https://shindesavita87.blogspot.co.uk' from blogspot to GitHub blog. Can you suggest me is it doable and if yes and how can we do that?

@yuceltoluyag
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main': undefined method fetch_and_parse' for Feedjira::Feed:Class (NoMethodError)

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kennym commented Jan 24, 2020

@yuceltoluyag - I'm pretty sure this script might need some updates after 9 years :-D

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@yuceltoluyag - I'm pretty sure this script might need some updates after 9 years :-D

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37371947/importing-my-blogger-blog-into-jekyll solved my problem =) ty for answer ;)

@rupeshtiwari
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I am getting this error <internal:C:/Ruby30-x64/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in require': cannot load such file -- feedzirra`

@RobbiNespu
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If anyone looking new changes. This is my fork https://gist.github.com/RobbiNespu/372571e4d271122ece3ee3a1830b4d26

@prabathbr
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If anyone looking new changes. This is my fork https://gist.github.com/RobbiNespu/372571e4d271122ece3ee3a1830b4d26

Thanks for the update. I have updated the code to fix few more errors which I have encountered.

My Fork: https://gist.github.com/prabathbr/0bb416b2dee7ed18d2a6fd3d8dd4b021

Updates:

  • added <require 'httparty'>
  • created "setup.sh" which will make a ruby environment to run the script in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • fixed script error[Invalid argument @ rb_sysopen --- post name ---- (Errno::EINVAL)] when running on posts with invalid post names with ":" & "*"

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