[Radiant] Importing Movable Type blog?

[J Aaron Farr]

Jay Levitt <lists-radiant at shopwatch.org> writes:

> I know Radiant isn't quite blog-ready yet, but I've got a ridiculously
> simple blog set up in MovableType that I want to move over.  I don't
> care about users or comments, just posts.
>
> Can anyone think of a workflow that might help accomplish this, either
> through MovableType's export, a PostgreSQL dump, or even an RSS
> scraper? I'd hate to go cut and paste all 100 posts.

I'd start off by creating an extension [1], then creating a Rake task
in that extension to read in some XML export file and then create the
Radiant Pages as needed.  The extension's rake file will give you easy
access to all of Radiant's classes and database.

You might also be able to do a SQL dump and then do enough
find/replaces on the SQL to bring it into Radiant's database, but I'm
not sure how close the schemas are.

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[1] http://wiki.radiantcms.org/Creating_Radiant_Extensions