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.. _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
""""""""""""
``pelican-import`` has two dependencies not required by the rest of pelican:
- BeautifulSoup
- pandoc
BeatifulSoup 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
"""""
| pelican-import [-h] [--wpfile] [--dotclear] [--feed] [-o OUTPUT]
| [-m MARKUP] [--dir-cat] [--strip-raw] [--disable-slugs]
| input
Positional arguments
====================
input The input file to read
Optional arguments
""""""""""""""""""
-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
========
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