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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