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Migrating from livejournal to hexo

Migrating from livejournal to hexo

2018-04-21 · 2 min read

Migrating from livejournal to hexo

Migrating from livejornal posed some problems.

I want to note that I did not transfer the comments.

livejournal-export seemed to me the most suitable. It translates immediately to markdown. However, tags are not imported. It uses browser session parameters for identification.

As the second option I considered ljdump. It downloads the weblog in html. For identification uses login and password.

Then I had to convert to markdown. To do this, I wrote the script xml2md.

#!/usr/bin/python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import sys
from lxml import etree
import html2text
from datetime import datetime
from transliterate import translit, get_available_language_codes

outdir = 'markdown'
os.makedirs(outdir, exist_ok=True)

infile = sys.argv[1]
print(infile)

tree = etree.parse(infile)
post = tree.getroot()

postTitle = ''
postTags = ''

for elem in post.getchildren():
    if not elem.text:
        text = "None"
    else:
        text = elem.text
    # print(elem.tag + " => " + text)
    # book_dict[elem.tag] = text
    if elem.tag == 'subject':
        postTitle = text
    if elem.tag == 'eventtime':
        postDate = text
    if elem.tag == 'event':
        postContent = text
    if elem.tag == 'props':
        for propsElem in elem.getchildren():
            if not elem.text:
                text = "None"
            else:
                text = propsElem.text
            # print(propsElem.tag + " => " + text)
            if propsElem.tag == 'taglist':
                postTags = text
            



postHeader = 'layout: post\n'+'title: '+postTitle+'\n'+'date: '+str(postDate)
postHeader = postHeader+'\ncategories: blog\nlang: ru'
postHeader = postHeader+'\ntags: ['+postTags+']'
postHeader = postHeader+'\n'+'---'

h = html2text.HTML2Text()
h.ignore_links = False
h.body_width = 0
h.unicode_snob = True
postContent = h.handle(postContent)

fullPost = postHeader+'\n\n\n'+postContent

date = datetime.strptime(postDate, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
outFile = '{0.year}-{0.month:02d}-{0.day:02d}'.format(date)
if postTitle != '':
    translitTitle = translit(postTitle, 'ru', reversed=True)
    translitTitle = translitTitle.replace(" ","_")
    translitTitle = translitTitle.replace(":","")
    translitTitle = translitTitle.replace("'","")
    translitTitle = translitTitle.replace("«","")
    translitTitle = translitTitle.replace("»","")
    translitTitle = translitTitle.replace(";","")
else:
    translitTitle = '{0.hour:02d}-{0.minute:02d}-{0.second:02d}'.format(date)
outFile = outFile+'-'+translitTitle

f = open(outdir+'/'+str(outFile)+'.md', 'w')
f.write(fullPost)
f.close()

Conversion can be performed using the command:

./xml2md <file>

This creates the markdown directory and the conversion result is placed in it.

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Dmitry S. Kulyabov
Professor of the Department of Probability Theory and Cybersecurity
My research interests include physics, Unix administration, and networking.