A simple console app for converting Blogger exported xml file to Hugo html files.
This program is based on Alan Tsai's mhat-consoleapp-blogger_to_wyam, which is for Wyam. Many thanks to Alan Tsai!
For Windows only, .NET Framework 4.5 is required.
Rather than simply compile and run this console app, please clone or download the source code and follow instructions below:
- Modify Constanst.cs for your needs.
- Build the project.
- Export posts from your Google Blogger site, rename it from "blog-yyyy-mm-dd.xml" to "blog.xml" and copy it to the project output directory, e.g.
bin\Debug\net452. - Run the application and see if there are html files generated under sub-directory "post." You might need to edit "categories" and "tags" property for each html file.
- Copy the generated html files to your Hugo web site's content\post\ directory. Done.
Note:
- If you didn't rename your xml file to "blog.xml" (step 3), you'll need to add command line arguments when you run this application.
- My blog posts are using images from Google Drive, so I don't need to download images files, and I simply commented those code .
- I don't care much about SEO, so I'm not sure whether those "data:blog.canonicalUrl" strings work or not.
After html files are generated, you might want to do some more modification using a find and replace tool. For example:
- Find "/s640/" and replace them with "/s1600/" so that original images are displayed instead of small sized version. Do the same with "/s400/".
- Find "
<a name="more"></a>" and replace them with "<!--more-->" so that "read more" can be displayed in your posts.
You might want to add aliases property in the front matter in each html file, so that requests to old URLs can be redirected to new URLs. You can find more description about aliases on Hugo web site. Here is an example that worked for me.
`aliases: ["/2013/01/aspnet-web-api-exception-handling.html"]`
That's it. If anything missed here, feel free to create an issue.