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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).
Usage
"""""
| pelican-import [-h] [--wpfile] [--dotclear] [--feed] [-o OUTPUT]
| [--dir-cat]
| input
Optional arguments:
"""""""""""""""""""
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--wpfile Wordpress XML export
--dotclear Dotclear export
--feed Feed to parse
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
Output path
--dir-cat Put files in directories with categories name
Examples
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for WordPress::
$ pelican-import --wpfile -o ~/output ~/posts.xml
for Dotclear::
$ pelican-import --dotclear -o ~/output ~/backup.txt
Tests
=====
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