I was in the process of migrating my blog from typepad.com to http://jekyllrb.com/.
Jekyll is missing an import script to import blog entries from Typepad, and I couldn't find anything related on the Internet. Well, I searched for less than 5 minutes, then I thought it'd be quicker to do itmyself. So here we are.
typepad_to_jekyll
is a script to import blog entries previously exported from typepad.
typepad_to_jekyll
imports typepad blog entries (not the comments) from typepad into your jekyll directory, under the _posts
directory.
You need perl
, and a platform where it runs. So that's pretty generic.
You also need a jekyll directory. But if you don't have that, I don't know why you are bothering anyway...
Log on typepad.com, go to your typepad blog admin page, then in the Settings tab
Click on Import/Export pane (bottom left), and export your blog. It should produce a
txt
file, called something likeUnnamed_Comet_Asset.txt
.Download the file and rename it to, say,
typepad_export.txt
.
run typepad_to_jekyll like this :
perl ./typepad_to_jekyll path/to/typepad_export.txt path/to/jekyll/directory
that's it !