Parses a Wordpress XML export file and imports the posts into Tumblr. See http://blog.zottmann.org/post/213103984/the-big-blog-move-on-2009 for info.

wordpress-to-tumblr.rb

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require "hpricot"
require "net/http"
require "uri"

TUMBLR_USER = "user@example.com"
TUMBLR_PASS = "thepasswordlol"
TUMBLR_DOMAIN = "mytumblrsubdomain.tumblr.com"
ORIGINAL_DOMAIN = "http://myoriginaldomain.example.com/"
FILE_URLS_TO_TIDS = "old-new.txt"

ported_urls = File.readlines(FILE_URLS_TO_TIDS).collect {|l| l.strip.match(/^(.*);/)[1] }

doc = Hpricot( File.open("wordpress.2009-10-10.xml") )

(doc/"item").each do |item|
  comments = item.search("wp:comment_approved").reject {|ct| ct.inner_text != "1" }.size
  pingbacks = item.search("wp:comment_type").reject {|ct| ct.inner_text != "pingback" }.size
  
  is_private   = ( item.search("wp:status").first.inner_text == "private" )
  has_comments = ( comments > 0 && comments > pingbacks )
  tags         = item.search("category[@domain='tag']").collect(&:inner_text).uniq
  
  next if item.search("wp:post_type").first.inner_text != "post"
  
  title = item.search("title").first.inner_text

  postdate = item.search("wp:post_date").first.inner_text
  link     = item.search("link").first.inner_text
  # link = ORIGINAL_DOMAIN + item.search("wp:post_date_gmt").first.inner_text[0, 10].gsub(/-/, "/") + "/" + item.search("wp:post_name").first.inner_text + "/" # do this if the link is empty
  
  next if ported_urls.include?(link)
  
  content = item.search("content:encoded").first.inner_text

  # My WP blog was using Disqus. I'd like to retain the comments.
  content += "\n\n<script type='text/javascript'>var disqus_url = '#{link}';</script>" if has_comments

  next if content.strip.empty?
  
  puts "- #{title} [#{comments}/#{pingbacks}]"
  puts "  #{link}"
  
  response = Net::HTTP.post_form(
    URI.parse("http://www.tumblr.com/api/write"),
    {
      :email => TUMBLR_USER,
      :password => TUMBLR_PASS,
      :type => "regular",
      :date => postdate,
      :title => title,
      :body => content,
      :tags => tags.join(","),
      :format => "markdown",
      :group => TUMBLR_DOMAIN,
      :private => is_private ? 1 : 0
    }
  )
  
  tumblr_id = response.read_body
  File.open(FILE_URLS_TO_TIDS, "a") do |f|
    f.puts "#{link};#{tumblr_id}"
    f.close
  end
end

Do you have a version of this that works with API v2? Theres no scripts out there at all to export from WordPress to Tumblr so it'd be great if you could modify this to work with API v2! This script doesn't work anymore due to API v1 being shut down :(