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Comment on Catchphrase! by Laz

Laz — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:46:47 +0000

Laugh laugh laugh laugh.

Comment on Catchphrase! by KM

KM — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:22:00 +0000

like.

Ah, Facebook has made me lazy.

Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Erlend

Erlend — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:34:49 +0000

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

Ellen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:14:06 +0000

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

Erlend — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:28:06 +0000

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.

Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by eddy

eddy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:53:09 +0000

very nice discription

Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Permafrost

Permafrost — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:12:47 +0000

I had thought of trying that, so that’s what I’ll do. Thank you!

Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:33:13 +0000

That’s an excellent question – The fact that you’re using a “new” template is definitely the issue, as it gets rid of all the $Blogger$ sorts of code.

The one thing I can think of off the top of my head that might work is making sure you copy your current HTML, temporarily switch to a “classic” template, then re-paste your old HTML back after the whole process is complete.

It’d probably look oogly as hell for a while, but without doing a ton of research (which unfortunately I don’t have time for today as I’m working), I don’t know that there’s any Blogger gadget to allow you to inject “classic” template code into a “new” template.

If you do hear of a way to do it, please let me know and I’ll make sure to update the post accordingly. Thanks!

Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Permafrost

Permafrost — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:57:13 +0000

Hi! Thank you for this tutorial! Everything has been running smoothly, but I’m stuck at step 4, about the item number. I can’t find the $BlogItemBody$ script in my template. I’m using a “new” template, as opposed to a “classic” one. Can the item number tag be shown by using a widget (or Blogger’s “gadget”)?

Comment on So You Want To Move Your Comments From Haloscan To Blogger… by Ellen

Ellen — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:48:12 +0000

I personally just moved from Blogger to WordPress (and am very glad I did, I personally like the WP platform much more), but my friend whose blog I did this for…fears change.

I also needed a challenge – I’d been unemployed for some time when I offered to do this project for him. And sure enough, it was a real fun mountain to summit. It just seems totally absurd to me that there isn’t a single tool in existence to do this.

And again, my thanks to you, Justin, without you this would absolutely NOT have been possible.