pelican-import
is a command-line tool for converting articles from other
software to reStructuredText or Markdown. The supported import formats are:
- Blogger XML export
- Dotclear export
- Posterous API
- Tumblr API
- WordPress XML export
- RSS/Atom feed
The conversion from HTML to reStructuredText or Markdown relies on Pandoc. For Dotclear, if the source posts are written with Markdown syntax, they will not be converted (as Pelican also supports Markdown).
Note
Unlike Pelican, Wordpress supports multiple categories per article. These are imported as a comma-separated string. You have to resolve these manually, or use a plugin that enables multiple categories per article (like more_categories).
pelican-import
has some dependencies not required by the rest of Pelican:
- BeautifulSoup4 and lxml, for WordPress and Dotclear import. Can be
installed like any other Python package (
pip install BeautifulSoup4 lxml
). - Feedparser, for feed import (
pip install feedparser
). - Pandoc, see the Pandoc site for installation instructions on your operating system.
pelican-import [-h] [--blogger] [--dotclear] [--posterous] [--tumblr] [--wpfile] [--feed] [-o OUTPUT] [-m MARKUP] [--dir-cat] [--dir-page] [--strip-raw] [--wp-custpost] [--wp-attach] [--disable-slugs] [-e EMAIL] [-p PASSWORD] [-b BLOGNAME] input|api_token|api_key
input
The input file to read api_token
(Posterous only) api_token can be obtained from http://posterous.com/api/ api_key
(Tumblr only) api_key can be obtained from https://www.tumblr.com/oauth/apps
-h, --help Show this help message and exit --blogger Blogger XML export (default: False) --dotclear Dotclear export (default: False) --posterous Posterous API (default: False) --tumblr Tumblr API (default: False) --wpfile WordPress XML export (default: False) --feed Feed to parse (default: False) -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT Output path (default: content) -m MARKUP, --markup MARKUP Output markup format: rst
,markdown
, orasciidoc
(default:rst
)--dir-cat Put files in directories with categories name (default: False) --dir-page Put files recognised as pages in "pages/" sub- directory (blogger and wordpress import only) (default: False) --filter-author Import only post from the specified author --strip-raw Strip raw HTML code that can't be converted to markup such as flash embeds or iframes (wordpress import only) (default: False) --wp-custpost Put wordpress custom post types in directories. If used with --dir-cat option directories will be created as "/post_type/category/" (wordpress import only) --wp-attach Download files uploaded to wordpress as attachments. Files will be added to posts as a list in the post header and links to the files within the post will be updated. All files will be downloaded, even if they aren't associated with a post. Files will be downloaded with their original path inside the output directory, e.g. "output/wp-uploads/date/postname/file.jpg". (wordpress import only) (requires an internet connection) --disable-slugs Disable storing slugs from imported posts within output. With this disabled, your Pelican URLs may not be consistent with your original posts. (default: False) -e EMAIL, --email=EMAIL Email used to authenticate Posterous API -p PASSWORD, --password=PASSWORD Password used to authenticate Posterous API -b BLOGNAME, --blogname=BLOGNAME Blog name used in Tumblr API
For Blogger:
$ pelican-import --blogger -o ~/output ~/posts.xml
For Dotclear:
$ pelican-import --dotclear -o ~/output ~/backup.txt
for Posterous:
$ pelican-import --posterous -o ~/output --email=<email_address> --password=<password> <api_token>
For Tumblr:
$ pelican-import --tumblr -o ~/output --blogname=<blogname> <api_token>
For WordPress:
$ pelican-import --wpfile -o ~/output ~/posts.xml
To test the module, one can use sample files: