.Text to dasBlog converstion tool

posted Friday, January 07, 2005 8:48 AM

Does anyone know of a .Text to dasBlog conversion tool?  I’m thinking about creating another blog and I’d like to take a subset of the posts as well as their comments along with me.  It would certainly be nice if I could just run a nice little import utility that I point at my existing .Text blog which sucks everything into my new blog which will likely be running dasBlog.  A quick search turned up a couple dasBlog to .Text converters but nothing the other way. 

4 Comments

# re: .Text to dasBlog converstion tool

Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:41 PM by Darrell    
Hmmm, how does dasBlog store posts, comments, etc.? I've written a utility that will suck everything out of .TEXT and put it into a dataset (for later updating a .TEXT database). Or if dasBlog supports the metaWeblog API I can get everything as an array of mwPost objects.

# re: .Text to dasBlog converstion tool

Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:34 PM by Steve    
I'm pretty sure it supports the metaWeblog API but I haven't actually started getting an instance up and running and its been a long long while since I looked the code base. Is this "utility" something you'd like to share? :)

# re: .Text to dasBlog converstion tool

Friday, January 07, 2005 10:42 PM by Stefano Demiliani    
I've used this tool to migrate posts from .Text to another .Text installation:
<a target="_new" href="http://blogs.labo-dotnet.com/vlad/archive/2004/06/20/2849.aspx">http://blogs.labo-dotnet.com/vlad/archive/2004/06/20/2849.aspx</a>
but I've never see a tool for a post migration from .Text to DasBlog. I've played with DasBlog many times ago and if I remember correctly it's a file-based system (if nothing has changed it's based on XML structures). With a lot of work you can modify the source of my link above to perform a post conversion for dasBlog.

# re: .Text to dasBlog converstion tool

Monday, January 10, 2005 4:58 PM by Stefano Demiliani    
Steven I've found (after a big search) the tool for your needs. Check it here:
<a target="_new" href="http://demiliani.com/blog/archive/2005/01/11/2049.aspx">http://demiliani.com/blog/archive/2005/01/11/2049.aspx</a>
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