Google Helping Bloggers with Data Portability
Want to move your blog to another publishing platform? Well now Google has made it easier for you. Last Friday, the Data Liberation Team announced the Google Blog Converters project on their Open Source Blog.
Google made data portability a lot easier for Blogger users a month ago and with this announcement it appears they are offering easier portability solutions to WordPress, Movable Type, and LiveJournal users as well.
Friday's release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of the above platforms. Future plans include synchronization tools between services that don't offer import/export features as well as support for BlogML.
Google has also released templates for hosting the conversions on Google App Engine.
Take a look at the examples hosted on Google App Engine:
But beware the caveat noted in the readme file:
"There is a limit to the size of a downloaded file on appspot.com of 1 MB of data. Thus, these hosted applications should only be used for reference or for the conversion of small blog export files."
If you're interested in getting involved with the project, take a look at the source code or join the discussion group here.
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Now if only they would do one for Vox, which has no export functionality. Very frustrating!
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looks like more will be possible with moving blogs finally!
i've gone through a bit of hell going blogger to wordpress, but i'm pretty happy with the change in the end :)
Wow... Finally all these otherwise intelligent bloggers can finally get off of the aged and unfriendly Blogger/Blogspot platform and on to the far more capable and all around web/plugin-friendly Wordpress! Yipee! (How sick are you of hearing Blogspot bloggers bitching about not having access to certain wordpress functionality or plugin? I know I am... )