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
>