typepad_to_jekyll
What is this stuff ?
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.
What it does
typepad_to_jekyll
imports typepad blog entries (not the comments) from typepad into your jekyll directory, under the _posts
directory.
Requirements
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...
Usage
Export your blog entries from typepad
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
.
Download and run typepad_to_jekyll
run typepad_to_jekyll like this :
perl ./typepad_to_jekyll path/to/typepad_export.txt path/to/jekyll/directory
that's it !