How to export a blog as a document 19 May 2011 Anyone got smart ideas here? I want to convert my whole blog into a formattable document, including comments, with a view to doing a book format (The Very Best of Evolving Thoughts). I want to be able to edit it, and put it through InDesign, and I want to do the whole thing in one go. I’ve tried importing WordPress’ XML files, but nothing works. I’ve tried finding an export plugin, but nothing exists (though many have asked for it on the forums). I can export individual posts to InDesign, but that means I can’t convert the resulting markup to Word or Pages. Any ideas, oh wonderful crowd of readers? Anyone want to write a WRX to RTF filter? Administrative Administrative
Administrative Gratitude and humility 25 Oct 201125 Oct 2011 I sent this out this morning to a slew of folk: Dear all I am sending this to you as a mass mailing because I have been overwhelmed by the sheer number and generosity of donors since my pathetic begging letter. God, by the way, has told me that he… Read More
Administrative Travel Diary 7 17 Oct 2009 So yesterday was a full day. I attended a talk by Tony Coady, coincidentally of my alma mater Melbourne, on whether religion is a danger. He argued, well, I thought, that it was no more a danger than any other human activity. However, one of the ways he did that… Read More
Administrative Anyone in Amsterdam? 18 Mar 2009 I have a six hour layover at the airport in the morning of 20 April… or I can just work on my talk. Read More
Build a screen scraper? http://nokogiri.org/ Here’s a crude sketch in Ruby: require 'nokogiri' require 'open-uri' @doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open("https://evolvingthoughts.net/2011/05/how-to-export-a-blog-as-a-document/")) # class entry-title # class entry-meta # class entry-content @title = @doc.at_css("h1.entry-title").text puts @title @meta = @doc.at_css(".entry-meta").text puts @meta @content = @doc.at_css(".entry-content").text puts @content More sophisticated parsing, extraction and persistent storage would be necessary.
I just needed a historians to do the research for me! Thanks, Chris – I’ll report back on how well it works.
I’m with Chris – I’ve used anthologize for this purpose & it’s not bad. It doesn’t give you perfectly clean copy, but it certainly gives you enough to work with.
Perhaps somebody like Ed Yong, who published from his blog, would know better? Can you do any LaTeX wizardry to your wordpress files?
I can write a grep file in a number of environments, but I really hoped someone else would do that for me. I used to do that for a living, and it’s really, really, boring.
When I had to export my whole blog, I was able to set the RSS feed to display all entries. That’s a cinch to import. But WordPress may not have such a setting.