Blogger2Jekyll
This tool will help you migrate from Blogger / Blogspot to any static site generator that uses YAML front-matter such as Jekyll / Octopress / Ruhoh / Nanoc.
Also see How to migrate from blogger to jekyll / ruhoh / octopress with proper redirects
Basic usage
Export your blog
- Login to Blogger
- Go to your blog's settings
- Go to Templates
- Change your template style to "classic" (temporarily) (it will keep your customizations saved)
- Go to Settings, Other
- Export your blog
- Change your template style back to the new one
Run blogger2jekyll
on your downloaded export
-
Install NodeJS
-
Follow the following:
npm install -g blogger2jekyll blogger2jekyll /path/to/blog-dd-mm-yyyy.xml /path/to/posts mv /path/to/posts/ /path/to/pub/posts/ blogger2jekyll-server 8080 /path/to/pub/ /path/to/pub/posts/
Might also be like this
npm install -g blogger2jekyll
blogger2jekyll ~/Downloads/blog-16-06-2004.xml /tmp/public/posts/
ls /tmp/public/posts/
blogger2jekyll-server 3000 /tmp/public/ posts
blogger2jekyll
reads in posts and comments from the xml file
(defaults to fuzzy searcing in the current directory for blog-*.xml
)
and outputs them to the specified output folder (defaults to blogger-posts
)
If you don't care about handling blogger redirects properly, and your static site generator supports the permalink
front-matter directive, you're done.
Just to be sure, check <with http://validator.w3.org/checklink>
However, if you're going to handle proper 301 redirects and or your static generator
does not handle the permalink directive, you'll probably wanna glance over the code
in blogger2jekyll-server
(or even use it directly), which
uses fuzzy redirects if it can find a name similar to
the one it was searching for in the directory it expected to find it in.
For Example (if the posts directory is simply p
)
GET /p/normal.html -> /p/normal.html
GET /p/title-of-blog-may-be.html -> /p/title-of-blog-may-be-truncated.html
GET /p/fun-with-osx-10-8.html -> /p/fun-with-osx-108.html
GET /p/this-post-really-doesnt-exist -> 404'd!
Advanced Usage
Open up the converter and modify it to meet your needs. It's very few lines of code and very straight forward.
git clone git://github.com/coolaj86/blogger2jekyll.git
cd blogger2jekyll
find .
vim lib/index.js