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The script worked perfectly. Thanks for matching up the comments with the posts – the xml importer couldn’t handle that!

That’s very good news, Joe. Thanks for testing it. The script actually bangs the blogger server, looking for comments RSS for every single post. So if you have 300 posts, there will be 304 requests made (1 to check total and ID, 3 to get posts, 300 for comments!)

Thanks a lot for the script!
I’ve been trying to get it all in through the RSS import without success. After I ran your script it was done in seconds, excellent!

That worked man!!

Really cool – cheers n’ respect!

Thanks alot for the script! It worked great! I was just about to give up at the database steps from webbleyou and you showed up, like a knight in shining armour

It worked great!

I’m glad it worked out for you guys. Thanks a lot for trying it out.

Thx. Worked great!

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Ady – thank you for this script/tool. I converted my blogspot blog from “old” to “new” Blogger this week and THEN realised that the importer would not work. I have not worked with php before but your script managed to transfer 222/257 of my posts, complete with comments and images. Manually working with the balance is not nearly so daunting.

[...] Thanks so much to ady for doing what the rest of us were too lazy to do:  write a script to move blogger posts and comments to wp. [...]

Thanks so much for writing that script, it worked flawlessly!

[...] How to transfer your old posts and comments from Blogger to WordPress? While migration support from the old Blogger is built in to WordPress, you’re more on your own (at least as of this writing) for migrating from the new Blogger. Enter this great script from romantika.name which can be found here. Read the instructions there. In summary, you just upload the script to your WordPress blog directory and “run” it. Let’s say you have uploaded the script to http://yourdomain.com/blog. Then, just visit this URL to run the script: http://yourdomain.com/blog/blogger-beta-import.php. [...]

[...] And I am inching ever closer to my new blog as Liz kindly referred me to this WordPress thread which in turn linked me to this clever solution which allowed me to transfer the majority of my posts, images and comments from new Blogger to WordPress. [...]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! You just saved me hours and hours. I love it when technology works! (Not to mention generous coders…)

[...] UPDATE: Found the importer script from ady. Thanks dude! [...]

You are a GOD!!..at least in my universe. I had put off migrating my blog until someone like you came along. Now I’m out of google’s clutches…at least until my next search.

[...] Ady at Romantika.name, who is a coding diety in my book, has written a script to import blogger beta posts and comments to WordPress. [...]

any idea why I can only import 228 out of 292 posts?

@Brenda: I am glad that the script has helped you.

@Josh, @Adam: You’re welcome

@Kathryn: Nice site

@Dawn: This may be caused by timeout or very slow connection between the server and blogger server. Or, also by the slowness of the server itself – PHP interpreter have timeouts (server dependent). Please let me know of your blogger ID. Email it to me if you don’t want to disclose. I’ll try to help if I can… however due to my own Internet connection problems I might face the same problem. It would be useful if you can remember what was the last result displayed.

I am not at liberty to disclose the blogger ID, as I am installing wordpress for a client and attempting to import an established blog at blogger.
The final line of the import said this:
Post 228 read from XML: Thursday Thirteen #8Error inserting comment.
I’ve attempted this import three times, all with the same results.

@Dawn: Well my friend, good luck. Without the feed that causes the error I can’t debug or find out what causes the error. And to get the feed I need the blogger ID to extract the feed… From the error message you provided it there must be something wrong with the comments on that particular post.

What you can do is load the imported WordPress, check for the last imported comment on the last imported post. Next compare the comments with the matching one in blogger. The next comment in blogger after the one successfully imported should be the problematic comment. Look for any unusual contents and try editing the comment on blogger before restarting import.

It would be great if you can share with me on what you found so that I can edit the script to overcome the problem that you are facing, to help future imports for others.

Do you just need the blog address?
I’m sorry, I’m not too familiar with blogger terms. I can give you the address, though. Would that help?

@Dawn: maybe my term was incorrect. I don’t need the Blogger ID but the first part of the URL XXXXXXX.blogspot.com

I just seem to forget that an ID can have different blogs. I should have said blog ID.

ah, okay, I would prefer to email that. What addy should I send that to?

@Dawn: Please send it to adyromantika at gmail dot com

hi, i was trying your blogger beta importer but i get the folowwing error.

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /www/110mb.com/r/i/c/a/r/d/o/_/ricardo/htdocs/blogger-beta-import.php on line 158

Warning: fopen(http://ricardo.beijos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full?alt=rss&max-results=1&start-index=200000) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /www/110mb.com/r/i/c/a/r/d/o/_/ricardo/htdocs/blogger-beta-import.php on line 158

Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /www/110mb.com/r/i/c/a/r/d/o/_/ricardo/htdocs/blogger-beta-import.php on line 159

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /www/110mb.com/r/i/c/a/r/d/o/_/ricardo/htdocs/blogger-beta-import.php on line 160

any ideas on what i shouldo?

Thanks

@ricardo: Your server has allow_url_fopen set to off meaning that scripts will not be able to open URLs.

You can ask you server provider to set allow_url_fopen = On

Or you can try adding this to the start of the script, it might work depending on the server config:

ini_set ('allow_url_fopen','On');

In the end server configuration always matters so you’re out of luck if the server provider is paranoid.

It’s me again, Ady.
I have a question. Does the script grab posts/comments in a particular order (oldest to newest, newest to oldest, etc.) or does it grab at random?
Dawn

@Dawn: The script downloads the feeds in as it is – newest to oldest. It gathers all data and then insert the posts & comments the reverse order – oldest then newest. This is to make sure that on the post management screen, newer posts gets listed first as it is sorted by post ID.

Okay, so does that mean when the script runs only partially and grabs say 180 out of 300 posts that I will get the newest or oldest posts imported?

Dawn

@Dawn: If the problem is due to timeout when getting the feeds, then no post will be inserted into the database. If something gets inserted – the script died while inserting. Whether or not error messages are displayed on screen depends on the display_errors settings on the server. If some posts gets imported, I strongly think that the script died because of the max_execution_time settings on the server which is not impossible on a slow (as in specs, not traffic) server.

Directly answering your question – older posts & comments gets inserted first.

@ricardo: Your server has allow_url_fopen set to off meaning that scripts will not be able to open URLs.

In the end server configuration always matters so you’re out of luck if the server provider is paranoid.

do u mean in the very first line? i did put that bit of code in the first line in there but didnt work aswell

i also noticed i couldnt open this link that pops in the error message, could it be that aswell

http://ricardo.beijos.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full?alt=rss&max-results=1&start-index=200000

@ricardo: The error URL file-access is disabled in the server clearly defines that the server configuration is denying the script access to URLs even if the URL is correct. So runtime configuration is also not allowed.

The URL you specified is weird. It should be the XXXXXX in XXXXXX.blogspot.com

Are you sure the URL ricardo.beijos.blogspot.com is correct? I don’t think so. But that’s the least of your problem, please consult server provider on the first problem first.

Good luck and let me know if you got stuck anywhere.

sorry, youre right that was the url for something else lol, sorry

the following error appears when i try to import the images using the images import plugin but get the following error:
**** POST 39 ****

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in /home/filercom/public_html/ric/teste/wp-content/plugins/blogger-image-import.php on line 127

i know youre not the author but ….. can you help?

@ricardo: If your PHP version is equal or greater than 4.3.0 you can use this modified script. Replace the original blogger image import file.

http://www.romantika.name/v2/scripts/blogger-image-import.zip

just to let u know that it worked, some of them didnt work as i had quite a few with the lightbox tag in it, so i think it wwas because of it,

once again thanks for your help!

@ricardo: No problem. Your last comment was for the image import right?

I hope all of the post/comment import was successful.

This was a huge help. Thank you. New Blogger was killing me.

[...] Thanks so much to ady for doing what the rest of us were too lazy to do: write a script to move blogger posts and comments to wp. [...]

Thank you so much, worked really well for over 500 posts.

I’m running the script, then after a few seconds a dialogue box opens saying “You have chosen to open blogger-beta-import.php” and asking if I want to open it or not. The script appears to stop running at that point, with the import incomplete. Is there any way to stop this happening?

Also – with apologies for double-posting – is there any way to import Haloscan comments using this?

I’ve been publishing with Blogger by SFTP for years and just made the switch to WordPress a few days ago. To make use of your import script I tranferred my blog to a Blogspot account and set the feeds to full. Tried out your script after that but it appears not to work for me, today, January 3rd. There were no error messages, however, I noticed the script did not register the Blogger ID or number of posts I have over 900 posts. Thanks for all your work.

Hi Ady,

My blog was hosted on my own server and not blogspot. I guess this is the reason that I cannot get the importer to work. Any ideas about how to rectify this?

@Melissa: Great! I am happy it helped.

@John H: Please email me your blogger URL and the current URL where you want to import it to. I won’t run the script, just want to diagnose your server a bit no harm will be done. As for Haloscan, maybe code change needs to be done.

@mutant: I need the same things from you as what I need from John H.

@Liana: I think you need to republish all of your posts to blogspot. However to be safe send me your source and destination URL so that I can have a look and give suggestions.

@All: Email me at adyromantika at gmail dot com or ady at romantika dot name. I am currently very busy with a dev work and audit at my dayjob so I’ll try my best to help.

I chose the simple solution. I published via blogspot and now it is importing nicely. Thank you!

@John H, mutant:

As I explained in my email the problem you are facing might be caused by the max_execution_time setting on the destination server.

For mutant, the problem is also caused by the allow_url_fopen setting.

As I mentioned to Dawn, I am planning to have the script to import in stages but due to current workload I can’t promise when…

Do keep an eye on this page, if I have any updates!

[...] The migration from Blogger to WordPress didn’t work but I remain hopeful and will be keeping an eye on the work going on here. Might be a nice solution. [...]

I’m new to WordPress and confused about how to run this script – I am under the impression I need to have my own site host to use it? Or if my blog is hosted on wordpress itself – can I load this script and run it???
Thanks

@Gareth: There are two main kinds of WordPress:

(1) wordpress.com where your blogs will be hosted on wordpress.com server and usually have the URL http://YOURNAME.wordpress.com

(2) wordpress.org where you download and install your own wordpress blog, on your own server.

This script will only work on the second kind.

[...] Después de unas semanas de inactividad, en las que hemos estado llevando a cabo el tedioso proceso de migrar el blog desde Blogger Beta a WordPress (para los que todavía tengais este problema aqui teneis un tutorial que os permitira hacerlo), hemos realizado un nuevo diseño y hemos arreglado algun que otro problemilla más, como el de redireccionar desde blogger hacia nuestro nuevo dominio particular en WordPress(para los que también tengais ese problema aqui teneis otro tutorial cojonudo),………..porfin estamo de vuelta!!! Desde hoy volvemos a ofreceros las últimas noticias del motor, curiosidades, videos, fotos, y todo lo relacionado con este mundeo, el de los coches, que tanto nos gusta!! [...]

Hi Ady,

Worked like a charm!

Utter frustration with Blogger and how it interacts with my ipowerweb.com led me down the WordPress path. Looks great. Changed the publishing from my own server and made it a blogspot. FTP’d the php script into my WordPress directory, executed it and viola 1229 successful entries! Thanks again. Now for the images…Notions here I come!

Thx Ady. Your script worked nice and quick and helped me aggregate my several blogs into one wordpress blog with different categories.

My only problem is that I made use of the link url field in blogger (the one where the blog title is also a URL link) and of course as wordpress doesn’t have this, a lot of my posts which reference ‘the linked site’ no longer make sense.

I found this post on the wordpress support forums which mentions using a custom tag to store this URL
Tag Data from Blogger « WordPress Support this post on the wordpress forums

Can your script be adjusted to gather this URL and store it in a Post-URL tag?

Thanks

[...] I searched around and found this script to migrate from Blogger Beta (also good for the new blogger which is now not in beta) written by Ady Romantika. [...]

THANK YOU!!!!!

After a couple of hours of trying to upload my Blogger posts to Word Press your solution worked perfectly first time!

THANK YOU!!!!!

@Reboots DaMachina: Great! Wow 1229 posts – I am happy to hear that. You must have a very fast connection the blogger server. This proves that the other variables causes problems, not the script

@Kon: I understand your problem. Let me know your blogger URL and point me to an example post so that I can analyze later. Also note that this is appended to my current TODO list which I owe to earlier users

@Bronte: Glad it helped.

[...] Trods den nye, superfine domæne-alias mulighed i Blogger, valgte jeg at flytte Bechs Webbrok til WordPress, som trods alt er noget mere fleksibel i længden. Men hvordan får man så lige importeret sine indlæg inklusive kommentarer fra den nye version af Blogger? Den del kan WordPress nemlig ikke håndtere endnu. Der faldt jeg imidlertid over en lille stump script på Romatika.name, som klarer opgaven formidabelt. Scriptet skal bare uploades til serveren, kaldes i browseren, og så går resten som en leg. [...]

[...] Trods den nye, superfine domæne-alias mulighed i Blogger, valgte jeg at flytte Bechs Webbrok til WordPress, som trods alt er noget mere fleksibel i længden. Men hvordan får man så lige importeret sine indlæg inklusive kommentarer fra den nye version af Blogger? Den del kan WordPress nemlig ikke håndtere endnu. Der faldt jeg imidlertid over en lille stump script på Romatika.name, som klarer opgaven formidabelt. Scriptet skal bare uploades til serveren, kaldes i browseren, og så går resten som en leg. [...]

I am trying to switch over to wordpress…
i guess i am too new to this, but how do I “Copy the script to your main WordPress directory”??

Thank YOU!
I’m another betablogger refuge (victim) who held out for along time, then gave them one last chance by updating to beta. ..only to find out that this was a bad idea. Your script seems to have worked flawlessly, and since I had been hosting on my own domain by ftp, even kept the links to the pictures!
Thanks so much!
L.

@amad: It is the same way you upload your WordPress files in the first place – using FTP or any file manager mechanism. This is why I don’t explain how to copy the file. WordPress.com users can’t use this. I am also unsure about WordPress automatic installation offered by some hosting companies. Which hosting do you use?

@Lorraine: Well done. Just a hint: you can use the options to make your WordPress blog accessible via http://www.toomadforpants.com/ instead of http://www.toomadforpants.com/wordpress/ later if you prefer, even if the files are installed in /wordpress

I can’t get this to work at all. I put it in the main directory and launch the file, which works. Then I put in my username and hit Import. I get the following message:

The webpage cannot be found

HTTP 404
Most likely causes:
There might be a typing error in the address.
If you clicked on a link, it may be out of date.

What you can try:
Retype the address.

Go back to the previous page.

Go to laceykaye.sslpowered.com and look for the information you want.

More information

When I take the “s” out of https and delete the sslpowered. then I get a blank success page. What am I doing wrong”

Anyone know how to get the pictures to import into my new WordPress install?

I successfully brought over 1229 posts, but when I used the picture importer from Notions, it runs very quickly and says 0 imported.

Any help from others who have been down this road is appreciated

[...] WELL! Since anyone publishing with blogger through FTP is pretty much screwed and Google doesn’t seem to think this is an issue (if they did then they’d f’ing fix it!! as it is, they don’t even mention it as a problem) I’ve decided to switch over to WordPress. After a bit of research about importing my posts from blogger beta I was able to switch over pretty easily. I even got to keep my comments!! [...]

@Lacey: very weird indeed. I am not sure what to suggest. Let me think.

@Reboots: have you made sure that the folder wp-content/uploads is writable by the web server process? e.g. chmod 777

[...] I must thank ady for creating the import script I used. It allows you to work around the fact that WordPress doesn’t currently support imports from Blogger 2.0. [...]

Probably a stupid question, but before I try this: will running this import script delete/mess-up my blogger page? I’d like to leave it up and don’t want to risk losing it. Anyone who has tried this already, feel free to answer. Thanks for your time and efforts!

@Lucas: unlike the old blogger import that are built in to WP, this importer extract from feeds and does not at all modify blogger settings / pages. So go ahead.

Hi Ady,

No uploads directory at that location, so created one, gave it 777. Will run the image import script and give update afterwards.

Hi Ady, re-read notions site about the image import and in addition to creating ‘uploads’ directory in wp-content, I created ‘blogger’ directory. 777 on both. But still no images. Resulting message during test is:

Importing a maximum of 10 images
Posts Processed : 1230
Images Imported : 0 (+ thumbnails)
Success!

It appears that the blogspot blog pictures references the images that are still on my website. Hmmm now what to do? They are in my site, but how do i get the references to change to the wp install?

@Reboots: the plugin only takes images hosted on blogger servers. It does specifically that. So if your images were hosted somewhere else before, it will not import them. For this you may want to contact Notions for support on his script.

For example I see this http://www.christoney.org/blog/uploaded_images/justinbirthday2006-732466.bmp
is hosted on your server. Is that what you mean?

Hi Ady,

Yes that is my problem. I used the ftp update version of blogger to my own website. So all the images are still on my host. I will look at notions plug in and see if I can mod it.

@Reboots: Yes that would be the best. Mod it so that it takes images from your own server /blog/uploaded_images/… to the new location. It should be lightning fast. Good luck!

[...] According to the WordPress site, it would be as easy as buying yarn to move all my Blogger posts over to this new blog.  Except Blogger Beta doesn’t want to play along nicely, like original Blogger did.  I think I spent about two hours on and off trying out different things and searching for solutions.  I eventually found a program to get over the problem and it worked!  I’ve lost all my categories but that’s a small price to pay, compared to the idea of having to manually copy over every single post! [...]

Hi ady,
Although I spent the last weekend going through and manually copying my URL’s from my blogger posts to wordpress, I thought you might want to experiment if others have the same issue.
I have placed one of my blog pages that uses the BlogItemURL at http://neversleepz-tunes.blogspot.com/ so you can test out.
Regards, Kon

@Kon: It seems that the full feed provided by blogger does not at all contain the URL stored in BlogItemURL making it impossible for us to grab. We can only make use of what they provide us with. Sorry

I was trying to test my new code for importing in stages but my script can’t connect to blogger due to network problems. I shall try again tomorrow maybe.

[...] My main concern was getting all the old posts and comments transferred over; the WordPress importer doesn’t work with the new Blogger. But thankfully, Ady Romantika has developed a script to import from the new Blogger to WordPress. But — augh! — it relies on allow_url_fopen, which DreamHost has disabled for security reasons. I thought I was sunk, but my talented friend Shroud (who writes a newspaper column and can be a bit eccentric) managed to modify the script so it uses cURL … and (after many tries) voila! All posts and comments appear to have come across almost perfectly. [...]

Your script saved me a ton of grief at a time when I am moving my domains and the New Blogger caught me off-guard. Thank you very, very much!

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A new version of the script has been released featuring step by step import and alternative to url_fopen. Please check it out. Sorry I can’t email you individually yet.

I’m with Amad (#62). I don’t understand a) how to “copy the script to your wordpress directory” nor do I understand your answer (#64). I’m pretty handy but you’re assuming I know something I don’t … like maybe you’re assuming we’re hosting our blogs off wordpress on our own domain???

When you say, “WordPress.com users can’t use this” it completely throws me. Isn’t the whole idea that we’re moving blogger beta files to WordPress? Doesn’t that imply by definition that we are all “WordPress.com users?”

Sorry if I’m being dense. I’ve read and read and read this post and the comments and I’m not following.

@Cynthia: OK you need to read carefully my answer below (be really careful to differentiate .com and .org). If you go to http://www.wordpress.com and http://www.wordpress.org you can tell the difference.

WordPress.com is a hosting service where you sign up for a blog. You can use it on your own domain with a fee, or host it for free with a URL like http://cynthia.wordpress.com (I have an account http://romantika.wordpress.com). You don’t have any control to your files except for uploaded images during posts, and no access using FTP (file transfer protocol).

WordPress.org is a place where you download the blog platform for use on your own domain & server. You have total control over your files and upload this script as you wish using FTP (file transfer protocol).

Since I am not in any way related to WordPress.com I don’t control what they install on their server.

Simple statement: Not all of us are WordPress.com users, we are all WordPress users.

Hope my explanation is clear.

I have to say THANKS
Works GREAT!!!!!
I think I heard that you could not use this script to upload the images that were in your blogger posts but this cript uploaded the images anyway!!!!
Visit the blog:
http://www.alabamaweather.org/blog

@Kenny: Dude, be careful. Try right-clicking on your images and see the properties. If you hosted the images somewhere else it’s fine, but if you see blogger.com you really need to import those images over.

Refreshing the page a few times will disable the images if you still have them hosted over there.

Thanks!

No problem. I tried my own means of changing the template to include the blogitemurl, but really the time you saved me more than justified the small time copying URL’s across.

It didn´t work with me :/ Dunno why. It tells me how many posts I have etc, and then it says I´m done, but no posts appears on my page..

@Jonas: Thanks, you found a bug. I’ve fixed it and republished it as version 0.5. Please download it again.

Sorry about that.

[...] Deberás bajarte el archivo blogger-beta-import.php desde esta página. [...]

Cool, works perfectly now! Thanks a lot!

[...] Also, if you are trying to import your posts and comments from the New Blogger this could prove useful – if you are unlucky to have problems during your import. Some people succeed the first time, but some do have problems. [...]

[...] Importing Posts 1. This blog has a small utility to import posts from Blogger Beta to WordPress. It worked great for me, but everytime I tried it, it failed the first time I tried to run it. I pressed the button a second time and it worked perfectly. Very happy with the results with this. Excellent little application. [...]

hi, I’m having a bit of trouble with the script. I have 672 posts to import from blogger. It gets through the first page fine and then i get this:

ERROR: [] Unable to extract initial data from http://.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full?alt=rss&max-results=1&start-index=200000

any ideas?

Love the script though, thanks for your work

@Norm: Did you enter the blogger id (first text box)?

yes, I entered normdebracopeland

my old blog address was normdebracopeland.blogspot.com

it did import about 70 posts before it quit

thanks so much for the quick reply, appreciate it

Hi Ady!

Ive been trying your recent script and it works flawlessly! Thanks.

Are you planning on adding categories export function?

let me know if you can think of anything else that may have gone wrong

@Norm: I tried importing your blog into my development server and it worked fine. Maybe you can put

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

in a test.php file, upload it to your destination server email me the URL so that I can analyze it.

@ricardo: I was not aware that blogger has categories? Point me to a blogger blog that implements this and I’ll let you know whether it is possible.

Have tried running this script a few times and no matter wether I choose 5 or 100 posts the first cycle imports perfectly and as soon as I click the next button I get an error message containing the following…

PHP Warning: fopen(): php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname failed in..

I checked (via test.php) and allow_url_fopen is set to on.

my blogspot ID is everythingspukka.

Any idea on why the script is failing on my webhost?

Thanks

you can have a look at my blog:

wwww.ricardouk.blogspot.com

the section is called “Categorias”

http://BLOGID.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/LABEL

hope it helps

Hi… Thanks for the great script. I am wondering however, if you had your blogger hosted on your own domain instead of having the blogspot.com address how will this script work?

Can anyone please advise? Thanks so much in advance!

@pukkalad: The fopen is allowed, but was having trouble solving the hostname to IP. Please check your server config. Does it happen all the time (when you try again)?

@ricardo: Thanks. I shall have a look when I have time

@Jen: You need to republish the blog inside blogger, and then enable full feeds like Liana did (comment #47-49)

Nice script

is possible to use it in inverse mode?

i want to move wordpress to blogger.

regards

Any chance you have a mod for this script to import blogger run sites that aren’t hoested in the “yourdoain.blogspot.com” set up? So the address is just “yourdomain.com” instead. Just wondering, as the blog i have to import stretches well over 1000 posts, and repblishing that is painful indeed. Nice script btw.

[...] Wow! That was fast. WordPress 2.1 has been released. Users of my Blogger Beta importer, please be aware that the script might not work with WordPress 2.1 [...]

I seem to be getting a little error when I replace the old script with your script on the “Import” page. Immediately upon clicking on “Import” I see an error such as this:

Warning: require_once(./wp-config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.mart/jimimorrison/jimimorrisonshead.com/wp-admin/import/blogger-beta-import.php on line 47

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘./wp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php’) in /home/.mart/jimimorrison/jimimorrisonshead.com/wp-admin/import/blogger-beta-import.php on line 47

Any help?

Sorry. Meant that I uploaded this script. I didn’t replace the old one.

@bass: Nope. Unless Google wants to hire me for such function

@NL: I am not sure about the feeds if you host it on your own server. I will try have a look.

@Jimi: You uploaded it into /wp-admin/import/ which is the wrong place. You need to upload it to / (the root directory)

No problems whatsoever using your import on a 2.1 WordPress FRESH INSTALL.

@ricardo: Really? Wohoo.. thanks for testing!

By the way, for those who are confused between versions of WordPress, here’s a good article from Lorelle: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/...

Just wrote about your script:

http://www.opendesigns.org/forum/discussion/358/how-to-import-your-new-bloggerex-beta-posts-to-wordpress-207-or-21/

Hi Ady,

The staged import seems to be working OK on my blog now.

I see the Haloscan import is on your TODO list. I’ve been looking at how the script works on my blog and have a couple of thoughts (NB – my ignorance of PHP and MySQL is pretty total, so please forgive me if I’m seizing the wrong end of the stick here).

Each item in the RSS feed includes the following:

<guid isPermaLink=’false’>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6524248.post-5071682647612674547</guid>

The 19-digit number after “.post-” is the ID used by Haloscan to match comments with each post. All I need is a way to insert that as an HTML comment in each imported post, and then this script can pick things up from there.

I notice your script does refer to this blogpost ID at line 302 – though does the “+6″ mean it only looks at the first six digits of the post ID? As noted above, the post ID is 19 digits long.

In any event, when I look at the actual MySQL tables, there is a column for “guid” but no data appears under this. Which seems to suggest the “guid” data is not getting imported for some reason.

So as I see it there are two things involved here:

(1) make sure the guid field for each item is imported from the RSS feed; and

(2) insert that as a comment in each field.

Apologies if I am totally missing the point here, but if not I hope this helps.

Here’s the error I am getting. I get this after it does the first 100 posts.

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/mythough/public_html/blogger-beta-import.php on line 247

Warning: fopen(http://.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full?alt=rss&max-results=1&start-index=200000) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Success in /home/mythough/public_html/blogger-beta-import.php on line 247

ERROR: [] Unable to extract initial data from http://.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full?alt=rss&max-results=1&start-index=200000

@ricardo: Thanks

@John: +6 is to strip “.post-” which is 6 characters, so the whole guid is taken.

@Lisa, pukkalad: I think you guys share the same problem. Please create a text file named something.php, with the following contents:

<?php phpinfo(); >

upload it on the server and pass me the URL (maybe via email?). I suspect there’s some kind of settings that prevent sessions to be stored.

i keep getting an error message for the curl extension. i cant seem to install it….that is if I have the right file. did you say you had a workaround? most, if not all of my images were links from flickr anyway.

@John: +6 is to strip “.post-” which is 6 characters, so the whole guid is taken.

Oops. Told you I was ignorant…

But that doesn’t alter the fact that the guid apparently isn’t being taken.

@justin: Please refer to comment #38

@John: point taken. It’s not saved as there was no obvious use for it, and now we have a reason to import it as well.

I am very busy this week with a couple of projects in hand and work itself so I appreciate everyone’s understanding.

Thanks for doing all this work.

I’m keen to try out this script, but I know previous blogger imports have failed to preserve permalinks as Blogger truncates the title much sooner than WordPress (less than 40 characters in length), excludes English article words (a, an, the) and drops characters with accents, instead of converting them to their closest ASCII equivalent.

Is this a problem here?

Hi,

Thanks for the plugin.

However I am getting the following errors when downloading my blogger beta posts.

I have a lot 1415, so the number of posts might be causing the problems.

I am getting the following errors:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded blogger-beta-import.php line 144

and

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded wp-db.php on line 70

Thanks in advance

@Stephen: No that’s not a problem, that’s a feature. I am considering that as well when working on the next versions.

@infonote: The max execution time problem is faced by many with slow connection (server « – » blogger), but some even managed to get 900 post at one go (earlier versions). Try lowering the number of posts per stage to a comfortable level. Staging is introduced just because of that. Seek the previous comments for comments from users with same issue…

Sorry if I sound stupid, but I’m don’t understand what you mean.

Will my individual posts remain at the same URL after import to WP?

Hi,
I plan on working on the comments and category feature in your library, are you working on it? I see something for comments in the version 0.5 of it.

What is the status? How can I help you?

@Stephen: I’m pretty sure the answer is “no”. WP and Blogger use different forms for their permalinks.

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It’s a shame this doesn’t import permalinks correctly, given all your hard work.

This bug also occurred with Old Blogger imports. There’s a solution for that here:
http://justinsomnia.org/2006/10/maintain-permalinks-moving-from-blogger-to-wordpress/

Maybe this will help you to fix the script?

I haven’t got the time to look at the script yet.. only at the comments here

@Stephen #126: My mistake for not understanding your question, sorry. No, that’s not a problem for many but for for some, if they want to maintain permalinks. The script will not retain Blogger permalinks but create WordPress style permalinks.

@Andrea: I am working on converting this all to a plugin but it’s going very very very slow. Sure you can mod it to include categories, haloscan, and I’ll include it in the plugin as a next release (with credits of course!). You can see my TODO list up there… some of the users (e.g. pukkalad, Lisa) are having problems with sessions, no idea why even after looking at the output of their phpinfo(). I am thinking of putting them all to hidden post fields. I had an idea in mind – that’s why I used session.

@stephen #130: Actually no, it’s not a shame. It’s just a missing feature for now. And even after this is supported, it’s not a fix, it’s an enhancement. The internal import method is now totally different from the old blogger. I’ve read the link you provided weeks ago but it is not applicable anymore to new blogger. I shall see whether the feeds include permalink information, and if yes you’re in luck! if not, then someone needs to either (1) thoroughly analyze how permalinks are made in Blogger, or (2) contact Google to ask for their algorithm . Is http://www.stephennewton.com the blog you are thinking of migrating?

Thanks all, and wish me enough energy to finish up my paid projects so that I can work on this one.

Thanks again for all your hard work. You’re right I do hope to import stphennewton.com and a couple of other blogs.

With nearly a thousand entries, fixing the URLs by hand would be impractical.

The RSS feeds must include the orginal URL as they always have a link to the orginal post.

If this is something you can fix, and if you get a working import for Haloscan comments too, I’d be happy to consider making a donation towards your work. Email me if that suggestion is of interest to you.

@stephen: Please don’t donate if you are hoping by doing so I can do magic. However you’re right it’s very simple to migrate the permalinks along, as I see the permalinks being made available in the feed. I didn’t notice that earlier.

@All: Thanks for those who have donated. Please also understand that the tip jar/donation function is to show appreciation on work that has been done, not as a payment mode. This blog, and the contents are for fun and pleasure so I will not take pressure from users in here otherwise it’ll become work.

This script was originally written for my better half to import her blog, and it has served it purpose. I am continuing this only as a hobby, not as work… so please have some patience.

OK, I am new to this whole wordpress thing, and have uploaded the file to my website, in the wp-content folder. I don’t understand how to run it though. I tried putting it in my plug ins folder but it doesn’t show in my wordpress dashboard. I tried cutting and pasting the link to it into my address bar, and nothing. Help! There’s no readme file for this to walk me through the use of it and I don’t understand your instructions on this post.

Ady thanks for the response.

However even with a post count of 5 I am still getting the error. I have a DSL connection so server to blogger should not be a problem.

Not sure what to do now.

Well I guess I can use my future host to transfer the files right?

Or I am missing something?

I am learning the plugins API now, and so far everything looks good… I use the deprecated variables to make sure 2.0 works, not just 2.1

Just a sneak peek to show that I am indeed in progress in creating the plugin and all todo:

Just give me a week.

Wow! That looks good! I had previously imported all my posts from the old blogger, but had my comments hidden because I was testing haloscan the day before. So, my comments didn’t get transferred. Then, they finally let me switch to the new blogger, hence my current problem. I’ve unhidden my comments and I want to try and import them over. I hope this works!

I’m going to tr this now, because I was just royally burned by a marketer’s fake import script in which the new blogger import works, but embeds advertisments to his own site in every one of your posts. watch out for this guy, whatever you do, this is extremely shady and now i have to start all over again: http://downloads.ituloy-angsulong.com/blogger-beta-to-wordpress-import-error-solved-with-bb2wp.html

i’m kind of praying this iste isn’t shady too, but we’ll see.

i got so far as to hit import and then go this error twice: Safari can’t open the page “http://www.edzipco.com/blogger-beta-import.php”. The error was: “lost network connection” (NSURLErrorDomain:-1005) Please choose Report Bug to Apple from the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before you saw this message.

i get this error when clicking next after 25 of my entries get imported…

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /homepages/27/d93713938/htdocs/gso/blogger-beta-import.php on line 247

Warning: fopen(http://.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full?alt=rss&max-results=1&start-index=200000) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /homepages/27/d93713938/htdocs/gso/blogger-beta-import.php on line 247

ERROR: [] Unable to extract initial data from http://.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/full?alt=rss&max-results=1&start-index=200000

HI-
This didn’t work for me at all. I don’t know much about mysql databases so that poses a problem when this is my error message. i went through refreshing, to finish the cycles, but i got an error like this each time: Post 850 read from XML: “Close Your Eyes!”
ERROR: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ’1,’2005-06-29 13:57:00′,’2005-06-29 17:57:00′,’ Error inserting post.

Can you help?

@antlered girl: LOL… he could’ve mentioned that in his post if he wants to do that. So bad. (#140)

@gregg and everyone: Please wait for the new version to be released as a plugin, as I am looking into all these problems (see comment #138).

Thanks.

Thanks Ady. I couldn’t believe that guy. He embedded URLs like “seoasshole[dot]com” SO sketchy. Can’t wait for your plugin. I’m having a hell of a time with the really complicated plugins out there and i keep getting a mysql error using this one. Do you know when it will be ready? My poor friend’s blogger blog is suffering.

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Good news. The script is now a plugin. I am not releasing it yet to finish these:

• author matching (currently being worked on by Andrea)
• category matching (currently trying to find a blogger site with low number of post and category since post 1-10: testing is taxing my time!)

Many people will be happy with these working update:

• Haloscan friendly (to be used with script from justinsomnia)
• Permalink maintained from Blogger (the name part so you need to tweak the permalink settings in WordPress)
• Import all at once (no staging)

Internally, these were changed:

• Plugin code, obviously
• No raw database calls. All database calls are done via WordPress functions
• No session anymore. All variables are passed by means of hidden post fields

It should be released by next Monday, hopefully. Perhaps I will release it on a new post as this post is already too long with comments and everything.

In the meantime, for the impatient (and for those who don’t need author and category matching) you can download a beta version here: new-blogger-import-1.0-beta.zip (mdsum: 928a94ea799d74187debc2d564e9fc24)

Please be aware that this might be broken, and if you run tests please let me know of the results. To install it copy to /wp-content/plugins directory, activate it on the Plugin page, and you will see it as a link on the Options bar.

“category matching (currently trying to find a blogger site with low number of post and category since post 1-10: testing is taxing my time!)”

will this do, 10 posts with text and one comment on each post:

http://ricardoukteste.blogspot.com/

each post has a different category

@ricardo: http://ricardoukteste.blogspot.com/ (This blog is open to invited readers only)

If you can, create multiple categories on a post. You can, I see it in a post (from feed):

<category domain=”http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#”>cat1</category>
<category domain=”http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#”>cat2</category>
<category domain=”http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#”>cat3</category>

Ady, thanks so much for working on this, we’re all so excited to see the release!

oops, i forgot about the invitation. Sorry

Done. let me know if you need anything added.

I am closing comments on this post, to get ready for the new plugin page. Many thanks all.

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