typo2yaml.rb

require 'yaml'
require 'xmlrpc/client'
  
typo =  XMLRPC::Client.new('blog.host.name', '/backend/xmlrpc') 

posts = typo.call('metaWeblog.getRecentPosts', '1', 'username', 'password', 1_000_000).select{|p| !p['description'].nil?}.collect do |post|
  {'title' => post['title'],
   'body'  => post['description'],
   'body_converter' => post['mt_convert_breaks'],
   'tags'  => post['mt_keywords'],
   'categories' => post['categories'],
   'url' => post['permaLink'],
   'slug' => post['permaLink'].split('/').last,
   'created_at' => post['dateCreated'].to_time}
end

File.open(File.expand_path('~/export.yaml'), 'w+') do |f|
  f.write posts.to_yaml
end