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