Blogger to Markdown

Convert Blogger backup blog posts to hugo compatible markdown documents

Usage: node index.js b|w <BLOGGER BACKUP XML> <OUTPUT DIR>

For Blogger imports, blog posts and comments (as seperate file <postname>-comments.md) will be created in "out" directory

node index.js your-blogger-backup-export.xml out

If you want the comments to be merged in your post file itself. you can use flag m at the end. Defaults to s for seperate comments file. You can also drop the comments with flag 'd' at the end.

node index.js your-wordpress-backup-export.xml out m

Installation (usual node project)

• Download or Clone this project
• cd to directory
• Run npm install to install dependencies
• Run node index.js <arg...>

Notes to self

Script to convert posts from Blogger to Markdown.

• Read XML
• Parse Entries (Posts and comments) (with xpath?)
• Parse Title, Link, Created, Updated, Content, Link
• List Post & Respective comment counts
• Content to MD - pandoc?
• Parse Images, Files, Videos linked to the posts
• Create output dir
• List items that are not downloaded( or can't) along with their .md file for user to proceed

Why

• Liked what the original version did, but needed a bunch of tweaks so worth forking. Also don't care about WordPress exports, so killed that off.
• Needed to port my dead dead dead Blogger to Hugo.