Comments for Adventures in Goat World http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:41:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Ellen http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/02/so-you-want-to-move-your-comments-from-haloscan-to-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-7873 Ellen Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:41:58 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6408#comment-7873 Oh good good. Personally, I prefer Wordpress quite a bit. The setup sometimes requires some help from your webhost but otherwise I've found it to be a much better and more flexible platform than Blogger. Oh good good. Personally, I prefer Wordpress quite a bit. The setup sometimes requires some help from your webhost but otherwise I’ve found it to be a much better and more flexible platform than Blogger.

]]> Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Nicole http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/02/so-you-want-to-move-your-comments-from-haloscan-to-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-7863 Nicole Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:45:51 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6408#comment-7863 Thanks so much for the reply. It turned out I was ale to use the online version of wordpress2blogger. My blog is larger than the limit but...I don't know, it seemed to work. Anyway, I may give the command line version a try just to test it out. I'll comment if I'm successful! Thanks so much for this wonderful tutorial--it saved 8 years of my blog comments (and also made me consider a move to wordpress for good...). Thanks so much for the reply. It turned out I was ale to use the online version of wordpress2blogger. My blog is larger than the limit but…I don’t know, it seemed to work. Anyway, I may give the command line version a try just to test it out. I’ll comment if I’m successful! Thanks so much for this wonderful tutorial–it saved 8 years of my blog comments (and also made me consider a move to wordpress for good…).

]]> Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Ellen http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/02/so-you-want-to-move-your-comments-from-haloscan-to-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-7858 Ellen Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:41:06 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6408#comment-7858 It's been quite a while since I've used the command line in Windows and my Parallels install is hopelessly borked for the moment to try testing it, but I *think* the way to do it is to just open up the command line and type in "run C:\[path to file]\wordpress2blogger.bat C:\[path to exported xml file]". The .sh files are for *nix based stuff, so they won't really work on Vista without installing something like cygwin, which is just going to make your life MUCH more complicated. Let me know if that works/helps, or if someone with more recent Windows experience than I've got wants to chime in with a more correct set of instructions, do feel free. It’s been quite a while since I’ve used the command line in Windows and my Parallels install is hopelessly borked for the moment to try testing it, but I *think* the way to do it is to just open up the command line and type in “run C:\[path to file]\wordpress2blogger.bat C:\[path to exported xml file]“.

The .sh files are for *nix based stuff, so they won’t really work on Vista without installing something like cygwin, which is just going to make your life MUCH more complicated.

Let me know if that works/helps, or if someone with more recent Windows experience than I’ve got wants to chime in with a more correct set of instructions, do feel free.

]]> Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Nicole http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/02/so-you-want-to-move-your-comments-from-haloscan-to-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-7857 Nicole Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:23:57 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6408#comment-7857 Sorry... .at was meant to be .bat Sorry… .at was meant to be .bat

]]> Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Nicole http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/02/so-you-want-to-move-your-comments-from-haloscan-to-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-7856 Nicole Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:23:31 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6408#comment-7856 Hi there, I was wondering if you might be able to tell me how to use the Wordpress2blogger script (or the included .at file)in windows vista. As far as I know, I've done everything correctly up till this point but I'm not exactly sure what to put into the command line (it's not drag and drop like Terminal).The readme file on the Google code page is totally unhelpful for people who don't already know the basic procedures. Any help would be so appreciated! Thanks, Nicole Hi there,

I was wondering if you might be able to tell me how to use the Wordpress2blogger script (or the included .at file)in windows vista. As far as I know, I’ve done everything correctly up till this point but I’m not exactly sure what to put into the command line (it’s not drag and drop like Terminal).The readme file on the Google code page is totally unhelpful for people who don’t already know the basic procedures. Any help would be so appreciated!
Thanks,
Nicole

]]> Comment on Catchphrase! by Laz http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/03/catchphrase/comment-page-1/#comment-7823 Laz Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:46:47 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6469#comment-7823 Laugh laugh laugh laugh. Laugh laugh laugh laugh.

]]> Comment on Catchphrase! by KM http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/03/catchphrase/comment-page-1/#comment-7804 KM Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:22:00 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6469#comment-7804 like. Ah, Facebook has made me lazy. like.

Ah, Facebook has made me lazy.

]]> Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Erlend http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/02/so-you-want-to-move-your-comments-from-haloscan-to-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-7710 Erlend Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:34:49 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6408#comment-7710 The script can be downloaded from <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y9suw9g" rel="nofollow">here</a>. As I say in the comments, it will have to be modified to suit your particular setup. The script can be downloaded from here. As I say in the comments, it will have to be modified to suit your particular setup.

]]> Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Ellen http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/02/so-you-want-to-move-your-comments-from-haloscan-to-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-7690 Ellen Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:14:06 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6408#comment-7690 Erlend - if you have a link to your script, please feel free to post it. Unfortunately, I don't have any python scripting experience yet, so I was not able to try something like what you managed to do. Erlend – if you have a link to your script, please feel free to post it. Unfortunately, I don’t have any python scripting experience yet, so I was not able to try something like what you managed to do.

]]> Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Erlend http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/2010/02/so-you-want-to-move-your-comments-from-haloscan-to-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-7688 Erlend Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:28:06 +0000 http://www.ellenshapiro.com/blog/?p=6408#comment-7688 I had a quite different approach: First I exported the Haloscan comments to an XML file. Then I wrote a Python script to parse the comments file (using Python's standard XML interface). I then combined this script with the Python interface to the Blogger API to upload comments to the correct posts. The only drawback was that dates and user information were lost - I cannot post comments as somebody else, nor post comments that seem to come from the past. But it was easy to put the user names and the original date into the comment text itself, which seemed a reasonable compromise. The upload got stuck in the middle a couple of times and had to be manually restarted, but I managed to work around that so that I did not get duplicate comments. I had a quite different approach:

First I exported the Haloscan comments to an XML file.

Then I wrote a Python script to parse the comments file (using Python’s standard XML interface). I then combined this script with the Python interface to the Blogger API to upload comments to the correct posts.

The only drawback was that dates and user information were lost – I cannot post comments as somebody else, nor post comments that seem to come from the past.

But it was easy to put the user names and the original date into the comment text itself, which seemed a reasonable compromise.

The upload got stuck in the middle a couple of times and had to be manually restarted, but I managed to work around that so that I did not get duplicate comments.

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