Way to import Blogger entries in Drupal ?

I'm sure this person has moved on since last August, but has anyone found an efficient way to migrate from blogger to drupal?

Any ideas?

I managed to cobble together something similar to import blogger entries into Drupal 4.7-pre. The directions are basically the same, although the php template differs in that it emits two sql statements.

Also, it might be smart to use date +"%s" -s xxxxxxx to sanity check your dates in the SQL as the timezone conversions might be a little annoying if that sort of thing bothers you.

hey everyone fyi i was just able to import 74 blogger posts into drupal 4.7 running locally. here's what i did, after learning from a few tries:

* in blogger's publishing settings, i chose show X posts on main page (where X > total number of posts + 1)
* choose atom feed format in blogger's feed settings (the rss option maxes out at say 20 items)
* republish
* if you're publishing your blogger site to your own ftp server (you may be foiled by something if not), download a local copy of atom.xml
* (optional) edit such things as relative urls; find/replace whatever (i.e. <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> though be careful to delete correct closing divs)
* if you're importing locally put the edited atom.xml in localhost; if not upload and replace the online file

after installing aggregator2, create new content type 'feed' and...
* define the basics. under feed options check only 'publish new items' and 'Create GUID for items'.
* promote all items if you wish
* By default discard feed items older than: never
* item date source: feed
* Show "full article"/"visit site" link: do not display
* i did not categorize my imported posts b/c i don't have a taxonomy yet
* i used 'full html' input format to allow for img tags
* other options as you wish

i found that after creating the feed no feed items were imported. so i hit refresh items. generally it times out in batches of 19 -- just keep refreshing until you get them all! the error msg when timing out mentions a line in the agg2 module re sleep_interval. i contemplate hacking this but repeatedly refreshing sufficed. you can increase per item timeout to 5 secs in the agg2 module settings.

I recently wrote a Python script to do this. It's pretty simple but it was written to let you grab all your blogger posts (including crawling through the archives) without having to republish or go through one by one. I was able to import two sites into a Drupal 4.7 instance without too much trouble.

You can find it at http://www.nother.net/jgeiger/code/blogger2drupal.py.

Jason

I've also written a little Python script, but this one uses the files posted by Blogger, preferably on your own server. It then directly inserts the data from those files into your Drupal MySQL database. For this it uses an XML template that you'll have to use in your Blogger weblog.

It also converts comments and it preserves date/time information for both posts and comments. User information for posts (though not for comments) can be converted to Drupal too; for this to work the Blogger users that are to be converted must already have a Drupal account.

This is my Blogger weblog and here is the Drupal version with the imported Blogger posts (both Dutch). I've set up a site over here where you can find the script, the XML Blogger template and a guide.

If there's any problems or if you have a question you can always try and contact me (see the guide) and I'll see what I can do.

http://yourblog/feeds/posts/default?max-results=500&start-index=1
http://yourblog/feeds/posts/default?max-results=500&start-index=500
...

http://yourblog/feeds/comments/default?max-results=500&start-index=1
http://yourblog/feeds/comments/default?max-results=500&start-index=500
...

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Hi,

Can you tell me what is the best way to do among those explained above ?

Anything new since ?

It it possible to import to Drupal 6 or need to set up a Drupal 5 website ?

Thanks a lot !

Google Blogger added few export feature via their new Draft interface.
So now I got a very nice XML (in ATOM format, I believe).

Well, now what ?
What would be the easiest way to import it to Drupal ?

Regards,
Shushu