.. _import:

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 Import from other blog software
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Description
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``pelican-import`` is a command line tool for converting articles from other
software to ReStructuredText. The supported formats are:

- WordPress XML export
- Dotclear export
- RSS/Atom feed

The conversion from HTML to reStructuredText relies on `pandoc
<http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/>`_. For Dotclear, if the source posts are
written with Markdown syntax, they will not be converted (as Pelican also
supports Markdown).

Dependencies
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``pelican-import`` has two dependencies not required by the rest of pelican:

- Beautiful Soup
- pandoc

Beautiful Soup can be installed like any other Python package::

    $ pip install BeautifulSoup

For pandoc, install a package for your operating system from the
`pandoc site <http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html>`_.


Usage
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| pelican-import [-h] [--wpfile] [--dotclear] [--feed] [-o OUTPUT]
|                [-m MARKUP] [--dir-cat] [--strip-raw] [--disable-slugs]
|                input

Positional arguments
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  input                 The input file to read

Optional arguments
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  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --wpfile              Wordpress XML export (default: False)
  --dotclear            Dotclear export (default: False)
  --feed                Feed to parse (default: False)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output path (default: output)
  -m MARKUP, --markup MARKUP
                        Output markup format (supports rst & markdown)
                        (default: rst)
  --dir-cat             Put files in directories with categories name
                        (default: False)
  --strip-raw           Strip raw HTML code that can't be converted to markup
                        such as flash embeds or iframes (wordpress import
                        only) (default: False)
  --disable-slugs       Disable storing slugs from imported posts within
                        output. With this disabled, your Pelican URLs may not
                        be consistent with your original posts. (default:
                        False)

Examples
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For WordPress::

    $ pelican-import --wpfile -o ~/output ~/posts.xml

For Dotclear::

    $ pelican-import --dotclear -o ~/output ~/backup.txt

Tests
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To test the module, one can use sample files:

- for Wordpress: http://wpcandy.com/made/the-sample-post-collection
- for Dotclear: http://themes.dotaddict.org/files/public/downloads/lorem-backup.txt