Well it seems there is hope that Blogger can make such a service available through our Blogger dashboards soon enough! Today the Google Code blog announced the Google Blog Converters project: an open source project which aims to make available the ability to import/export feeds from many different blog platforms:
This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress.
In addition, the source code includes templates for hosting these conversions on Google App Engine. Future additions to the project will include support for BlogML and synchronization tools between various services that do not provide a import/export feature but do provide APIs for accessing and modifying blog contents.
At present, the scripts provided by the Blog Converters Project are not so user friendly for those unfamiliar with scripting languages (though I hope those of you fluent in Python or familiar with the Google App engine may be able to make significantly more progress than I have!).
Instead, you may be better advised to check out these existing online projects if you need to convert a blog from another host over to your Blogger blog:
- Wordpress2Blogger - Import posts from a Wordpress blog to your Blogger account
- LiveJournal2Blogger - Import posts from a LiveJournal blog to your Blogger blog
Please feel free to leave any comments or suggestions about this project below.
28 Comments:
this so cool who wants to use design feature of blogger that is absent in wordpress.
cool
its a usefull for me...
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this is mail sent by google for me.
After 2 days receiving this mail i cant get the ads for my blog from google .
what to do? plzzzzzzzzzz help
Sant,
A few months ago I received a similar email from Google and emailed the Adsense team right away for clarification on the problem with my account. As it turned out, the code for a handful of my ads had changed when I had switched between the compose and html editing screens, so I had to go back and check every single post to ensure they were correct!
I think the problem with your own site is because the Adsense team believe some of the embedded YouTube videos on your blog could be in breach of copyright. In order to get your ads restored, you will need to remove anything which could *possibly* involve copyright issues and provide proof that you are allowed to use anything which remains. Then make an appeal through your Adsense dashboard, explaining what you have done to resolve the issue.
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now that is something i was looking for a long time. thank you amanda.
Can we also import comments?
It is only for small file under 1MB, while my file is ove 3MB, what should I do now? Thanks
My file is only 1.4 MB - is there a way to fudge it in? Is a blog with less that 1 MB common?
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Nice post and very informative. Thanx and hoping to read more from your blog
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Very insightful info. Another thing to look forward to.. Thanks Amanda for bringing the good news.
I was waiting this service for a long time , thanks for sharing.
I will save those link for future use, incase my wordpress has encountered problem, thanks
alright...i've followed the instructions in wordpress2blogger down to a T, and then when i imported the converted blogger xml file, i got this message: "sorry the import failed due to a server error. the code is bX-xxxx" (the xxxx changes every time). What do i do wrong? and will we EVER be able to import ANYthing to blogger? my email is mu99le@gmail.com. thanks!
Nice post amanda, i would like to try importing my wordpress blog to Blogger blogspot in case if there is any unwanted thing happen on my domain host. Thanks amanda
If your file is larger then 1 meg, simply host the conversion program on another site. If you goto the blog conversion site on Google, there are all the files you need to run it yourself without the restriction. You just need to know what you are doing. ;)
Has anyone come across a way to import only comments? Scenario: I wrote a blogger blog on my own domain, via ftp for years before commenting was available through Blogger. Many of my old posts had comments via BlogKomm, which is a great script. But I'd like to be able to import them into my Blogger blog now that it's hosted on BlogSpot. Any thoughts?
terima kasih amanda, waktu pertama kali import wordpress saya , gagal terus....tapi akhirnya berhasil juga setelah saya membaca artikel amanda ini,
terima kasih..
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I love the way Google complains that you may have AdSense ads on your site and be in breach of their intellectual property. Google has been putting pages of my copyrighted book on sites for years now, 50% of the pages of a book I wrote are available through "Search this book" and I never ever gave Google permission to scan my book, or any portions of my book, let alone half of it, and make those pagess available online and for free. so they really protect their hide but don't care about - and even exploit - other people's intellectual property.
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If there some features like wordpress or like similar other functions available in Blogger then I think that blogger will be the best platform for any mass people....but some how google not thinking on this way...
I hope google will develop a CMS OR corporate Blog sites using blogger with more features and functions.....That is I am just looking for
I wrote a blog post about the new Google Search Options just yesterday - what is really fantastic is the 'Wonder Wheel' feature. It is so simple, but you can get a clear visual idea of wading through this information, refining your search each time. It is a great way of finding out new ideas for search terms as well.
Hi that is a great news for all people like me....I don't know a lot about wave and thus that is very new for me...but that is a very very good news for me because collaboratively I can use their service along with twitter and many other features at a time that is nice...thanks Google and thanks web master of this site..
That is a nice collective information for me as well...thank you
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