mkrisher / typepad-import

Typepad Import Rake task for Rails
Release Notes
Revised: 03/19/09 Release 1
Mike Krisher
mike@mikekrisher.com

Git: git://github.com/mkrisher/typepad-import.git

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CHANGELOG:

03/19/09: R1

- task will now accept url from a config or prompt, will parse the feed
  adding entries to the database table. While doing so it will fix the 
  typepad links and make them relative, as well as pull in local copies
  of embedded images and change the paths in the content to be local.


03/18/09: PR2

- task will now accept a url and parse the feed, adding entries to the 
  database table. Just needs some content massaging

03/17/09: PR1

- starting the rake task to import data from Typepad feed

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Description:

- this rake task will ask the user for a Typepad feed URL and 
  will import that feed into a local database table. Can be used 
  for archiving, legacy data use in new Rails app, etc...

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Usage:

- the task has a couple of dependencies. the first is the database table.
  1) run rake db:migrate
  
  the task writes images to the /public/images directory if there are any 
  images embedded in posts. when writing the local copy, links are updated 
  to reference the local paths. in addition to the images, permalinks are 
  rewritten as well to be relative.
  2) be sure to add routes for /:year/:month/:link