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Blogger.com to Serendipity Import script

Serendipity is extensively customisable and has quite a number of plugins available to enhance the basic feature set. It is developed in PHP, which being my favourite server-side programming language for web applications, has inspired me to study the code deeper and write code to help the Serendipity community. I shall begin my contribution to the Serendipity project by sharing a teeny weeny script I wrote to import all my posts (and comments) from Blogger.com. Blogger.com service is the same thing as Blogspot blogs.

Just place this Blogger.com To Serendipity Import file in the Serendipity directory and access it from a browser. Follow the instructions it gives. There are a few steps you need to take to make sure it goes well, so be careful.

If you have comments or suggestions, feel free to drop me a line.

Update (29/11/2005): My code has since been integrated into the Serendipity distribution as an importer by the project developers and now comes standard as part of all their new releases!
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  1. Garvin says:
    #1 2005-10-30 11:41 (Reply)

    Wow, this is a cool importer script. We've needed this experience from a blogger.com user for a long time!

    If you allow me to, I would like to modify your script a bit so that we can add it as an importer plugin to our core? Of course the steps you outlined for the import will still need to be done outside of serendipity and I would keep your importer instructions.

    Many thanks, and much appreciated,
    Garvin

  2. Jaa says:
    #1.1 2005-10-30 20:32 (Reply)

    Garvin,

    Sure go ahead! I did think about making it so that it became available in the import plugin, but then I am not familiar with Serendipity much yet... So be my guest.

  3. Simon says:
    #2 2005-10-31 03:04 (Reply)

    Good work. Although you might want to use <?php instead of just <?. Just to be on the safe side of coding standards. :-)

  4. Simon says:
    #3 2005-10-31 03:07 (Reply)

    ...
    < ? php instead of just < ?

    :-)


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