Jekyll Disqus Comments Importer

Migrate Disqus comments into static YAML files for use with Staticman.

disqus_comments.rake assumes that the Disqus blog has not been deactivated. If it is unreachable via the Disqus API, this plugin will not be able to fetch comments.

This plugin will download post comments from Disqus and cache them in _data/comments/<post-slug>/ folders at the root of the Jekyll site.

Installation

Copy the following files to your Jekyll site folder.

• _rake/disqus_comments.rake
• Rakefile (Not necessary if you already have a Rakefile that loads _rake/*)

Obtain Disqus API Public Key

To use the plugin, you will need to obtain a public key from the Disqus API and add it to your _config.yml.

1. Register new application
2. Setup application. Suggested configuration below:

Label: <Name of application> eg. Jekyll Disqus importer
Description: Convert comments into static files.
Website:
Domains: disqus.com
Default Access: Read only

Add the following lines to your _config.yml

comments:
  disqus:
    short_name: YOUR-DISQUS-FORUM-SHORTNAME-HERE
    api_key:    YOUR-DISQUS-PUBLIC-KEY-HERE

Importing Disqus Comments

Import comments from Disqus by running rake disquscomments

Troubleshooting

When running rake disquscomments you may see warnings like:

Comments feed not found: <domain.com>/post-slug/

This likely means no comments exist for a given post. It could also mean ident is wrong and needs to be modified to match the Disqus identifier of each post.

To verify Disqus identifiers:

1. Export Disqus comments as XML.
2. Download and open XML file.
3. Look for <link> elements. This is what Disqus is using to identify each comment feed. eg. <link>https://mademistakes.com/mastering-paper/contour-drawing/</link>

By default the plugin attempts to get comments using the default Disqus identifier of domain.com/post-id/. It assumes url has been set in _config.yml. If you used something else you will need to modify the following line in disqus_comments.rake:

# site.url + post.id + trailing slash
ident    = site['url'] + post.id + '/'

License

Copyright © 2013 Patrick Hawks and licensed under dual licensed under The MIT License and the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later, except for the files noted below.

You don't have to do anything special to choose one license or the other and you don't have to notify anyone which license you are using.

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Copyright © 2012 Jade Dominguez

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