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1 Jul 29, 2024 17:32    

I was wondering if anyone had a way to export the posts to an external file. I'm cleaning up my system and have several blogs that are basically static at this point. I want to pull the posts for them and archive them, but while I can pull it from the database, there's a LOT to go through! Being able to export one blog's posts would make the process a lot easier.

2 Jul 29, 2024 20:15

Nothing easy that I've found.

There used to be an export option but I don't see it in the most recent version.

Will check again.

There is this but it would take a bit of work to run it. If I have time . . . .

Anyway what do you want to do?

Do you want each post to be converted to a single HTML file with images etc. or do you just want the bare text ??

I have a skin that reformats a page content so it can be printed. In theory I could make a script to.

  1. Select a post or comment by it's 'number'
  2. Call the print skin
  3. Save to {*&~}

However I'm far too busy to think much on it currently.

So how many posts do you want to export?

3 Jul 29, 2024 21:22

So, I pulled the database and was able to sort it by category, which got me the posts I needed. It's not neat or easy, but it'll work ok for what I want. I did do a simple page that just pulled the posts from the database based on category, but trying to format it is proving a pain, so I'll have to work on that some more.

If you want, I'll work on that page so it's more functional if you think others might want to use it too.

4 Jul 29, 2024 21:42

@dubird wrote earlier:

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If you want, I'll work on that page so it's more functional if you think others might want to use it too.

That's very kind of you and I would love to see what you did and how it works, but note there are very few using this forum now, so don't feel any obligation etc. just because you offered.

5 Jul 29, 2024 22:33

Yeah, but now I'm curious. XD I've got something similar I used on my portfolio and art sites, so I'll pull it out and update it and see what happens.


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