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Have a link to your server? Hopefully your system has a pretty flexible feed system and lets you specify date ranges or the like. Then just do something like wget url_to_rss. That will create the rss file. Similarly, lynx -dump will do the same. (You'll want to be careful about overwriting files). The other thing you may have to do is crawl/filter your website to get the links to each post, then request the rss2 version of that. I don't have any actual samples now, but I might be able to give you some after work. (I can create a hypothetical scenario though...let's say there's a well know blog system that always will give you an rss version of a document by merely adding feed to the end of the url. It also contains links on the front page to monthly archives. In a Unixish environment I might do something like lynx -dump | grep http | sed -e 's/^[^h]*h/h/' -e 's/ *$/\/feed/' > temp.txt (edit temp to include just the monthly archives) then cat temp.txt | xargs wget -r -l 1 Of course, without knowing how much you can actually get out of your system as rss it's a gamble. (Sorry, this all isn't probably very helpful, but if you give your actual url I might be able to give something more meaningful tonight.) Jon Gorman ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 11:23:29 -0400 >From: "The Ford Library at Fuqua" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Exporting RSS Source from a Blog >To: [log in to unmask] >Cc: [log in to unmask] > > Hi John, > > Thanks for the quick response. I tried accessing the > feed with lynx to no avail. Its been quite awhile > since I worked w/ lynx. I'll take a quick look at > wget as well and see if its deployed here and > usable. > > Can you spare a few moments to send an example of > your "quick and dirty" method? > > Feel free to do this on- or off-list if you have the > time. > Thanks again! > -- > Carlton Brown > Associate Director & IT Services Manager > Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business > Duke University > > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Jonathan Gorman > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > The quick and dirty way I've done something > similar in the past is to download individual rss > pages by running something like wget. Other > command-line browsers/spiders could do something > similar. > > After all, the mechanisms for pulling rss feeds > are really at the base the same mechanisms for > pulling web pages of any type. > > Jon Gorman > ---- Original message ---- > >Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:01:48 -0400 > >From: The Ford Library at Fuqua > <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: [CODE4LIB] Exporting RSS Source from a > Blog > >To: [log in to unmask] > > > > Hello All, > > > >We're attempting to migrate our java-based > Blojsom blog to the more > >user-friendly WordPress software. WordPress has > built import wizards for > >many popular blog platforms; but there isn't one > for Blojsom which is > >different from *bloxsom* which does have an > import wizard. Blojsom does have > >an export blog plugin; but the data is not in RSS > 2.0 and would require more > >Perl than I know to convert. > > > >WP can import data in RSS 2.0, and I can grab the > RSS source of some posts > >by simply viewing/copying the source in my > browser. But I need to migrate > >more than the limited number of posts that can be > extracted by viewing the > >RSS source in the browser. > > > >Does anyone know of a tool or hack to extract - > export the entire contents, > >or a large fixed number of posts from a blog as > RSS 2.0? Google Reader and > >some others will grab a large number of posts; > but I can't view the RSS > >source. > > > >I've done considerable googling already and the > few scripts/tools I've > >located call for PHP or Ruby -- neither of which > are deployed in our > >environment. > > > >Thanks in advance for any tips or pointers. > > > >-- > >Carlton Brown > >Associate Director & IT Services Manager > >Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business > >Duke University