import comments from another platform

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    1234abc987 · Member ·

    i have recently moved to wordpress.com and i’m importing posts from my old blogs on other platforms around the world.
    if the platform is not supported (i.e. diaryland), i simply copy and paste my posts, editing the date.
    it’s quite a long job, but the posts in my case are not so many and i can do it.

    but what if i have to import comments?
    i have another blog i have saved, page by page, on my home pc.
    i’d like to import to wordpress.com not only my posts, but also comments and the name of commenters.
    this stuff is now in html pages each containing the post itself followed by its comments.
    is there an automated way to import comments from an html page?

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    stmsat · Member ·

    If it was possible, it would be easier to import both the post and the comments together, in the same process. Now, parsing an html page is not a trivial task, especially if the structure of the page is not semantically well-defined. Isn’t there any other way you can obtain your posts and comments? (like an xml document, or a database dump)

    Anyway, the answer to your question is: maybe yes, but someone (a lucky code-monke… pardon, programmer :D) has to “automate” it. A suggestion: the Movable Type import format is very easy to implement (I used it for importing from a dying italian blog platform).

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    1234abc987 · Member ·

    me lo rispieghi in italiano? :D
    il blog era su splinder, ma l’ho cancellato.
    ho conservato una copia del blog in locale con teleport pro…
    non credo proprio di poterla esportare in altri formati…

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