This utility enables you to import blog entries from an existing blog into Google Blogger. The initial version uses Pebble blog as input, but the project is set up such that other sources can be added later on. It:
- Reads the original Pebble posts and posts them to Blogger. This includes comments but due to limitations in the Google Blogger API the details of the original poster of the comment had to be included in the comment text and I show up as the poster. (Google does not allow to specify another author as poster of a comment though the API to prevent spam. Here's an example of how this works out in practice.)
- Validates links in blogs posts and attempts to fix them where possible (for example links between blog posts that would break when moving to new location). If it can't fix a link, it reports this in the log file.
- Generate a redirects file that you can include in your Apache httpd.conf to redirect visitors that access the old location to the new location of a post.