Press2Blogger

A node command line application (CLI) that could help you move or backup your current website from Wordpress to Blogger.

This is still in its early stages of development, so do expect bugs and errors. So that, please open issue here to make it better. Your contributions are very welcome!

press2blogger is written in TypeScript using oclif (a Node.JS Open CLI Framework).

Requirements

• Node 8.0+

Installation

$ npm install -g press2blogger

Usage

USAGE

$ press2blogger [WP_SITE_URL] [BLOGGER_ID]

OPTIONS

-f, --force        update post in local storage if exists
-h, --help         show CLI help
-l, --limit=limit  <number> maximum post items to fetch (default: all)
-o, --output       <boolean> get posts from local storage and generate XML file
-p, --publish      <boolean> publish a post after synchronizing
-s, --start=start  <number> start page to fetch (default: 1) or start offset to query from local storage (default: 0)
-u, --upload       <boolean> upload post images from host to blogger (picasa)
-v, --version      show CLI version

Examples

1. Backup all posts from http://wp-themes.com to my sample blogger http://press2blogger.blogspot.com (using v1.0.0)

2. ... More examples will come soon !

FAQs

1. Current album is full, please create a new one manually...

Because Google was not allow create an album by API anymore.. so that when facing this warning, you should create an album manually before continue

• Open your browser and create/edit a post on your current blog
• Click "Insert Image" on toolbar, then upload an picture from computer.
• After upload success, Google Photos will create new album for your blog, you can back to the console and confirm "Yes" to continue

2. Upload error: ... UNKNOWN_ERROR

Sometimes Google return error when calling upload API, so if you get this error, just wait for some minutes and press "Yes" to retry You can also skip uploading some images and move to next post if "Retry" not working

Change Logs

1.0.2

• Check and re-create access_token everytime before calling APIs
• Prompt user to retry upload/download images when fail

1.0.1

• Support some options: --upload, --publish, --start, --limit, --output
• Make output messages more beautiful
• Fix some minor bugs when synchorinzing post and images

1.0.0

• First release with simple commnand

TODO

• Check if image is already exist then skipping download/upload
• Re-create access_token when it expired when process still running

License

MIT © Ngoc L.B.