[Radiant] Importing Movable Type blog?

[Jay Levitt]

J Aaron Farr wrote:
> 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.
> 

That gives me an even better idea (in terms of "I'm lazy and it's small"): I 
could read the SQL dump, or even the RSS feed, and then script a browser 
session to post it to the Radiant site.  Hey, I can probably even do that 
with AppleScript on the Mac... open two browser tabs and flip between them. 
  So many choices.

Jay