{"id":519,"date":"2007-05-21T12:06:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.broom9.com\/?page_id=519"},"modified":"2010-10-09T23:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T15:19:50","slug":"live-space-mover","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/b2.broom9.com\/?page_id=519","title":{"rendered":"Live Space Mover"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Microsoft has announced Live Space to WordPress.com migration, the recommended way now is to use the official function. If you want to move Live Space to a self-hosted WordPress, create a blog on WordPress.com as a bridge (export from WordPress.com blog then import to your self-hosted WordPress).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank all guys who cared about this script ;)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A python script for importing blog entries from live space to WordPress.<\/p>\n

With Google blog converter<\/a> you may also be able to move from live space to blogger\/TypePad\/Moveable Type\/Live Journal blog. (See note 2<\/a> if you want to use this script with Google blog converter).<\/p>\n

Tested on Python 2.5\/2.6 and Windows XP\/Ubuntu Linux.<\/p>\n

Based on the wonderful HTML parser library BeautifulSoup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hosted on Google Code<\/a>, Source code svn is<\/p>\n

svn checkout http:\/\/live-space-mover.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/ live-space-mover<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If there are any problems when using this script, feel free to contact me. \"weiwei9
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User Guide<\/h4>\n
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  1. Install Python runtime<\/a> and Beautiful Soup. There are 2 combinations tested by me:\n
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    1. Python Runtime 2.5.2 and Beautiful Soup 3.0.6<\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Python Runtime 2.5.1 and Beautiful Soup 3.0.4<\/a> and a small fix in note 1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Place the file BeautifulSoup.py in the same directory of live-space-mover.py, or install it into Python runtime by yourself<\/li>\n

    3. Download the newest release zip from the hosted page<\/a>, extract it. (Older versions may become unusable because of the HTML changes of Live Space). <\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Change your live space settings\n
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      1. Make sure it is open to anyone (not only to your contacts)<\/li>\n
      2. Set time zone to the same with your wordpress blog<\/li>\n
      3. Set date format to yyyy\/mm\/dd, or mm\/dd\/yyyy. This probably depends on the locale setting of your system or browser, the point is to make the “YEAR” appear in your date. If the program fails and complains about date parsing, try to use the option -t to specify date time format. For example, the time on my space is shown like “9:45 PM”, but if your time is shown like “9:45:15 PM”, you may want to use a command line like below
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        python live-space-mover.py -s http:\/\/yourspaceid.spaces.live.com\/ -t \"%m\/%d\/%Y %I:%M:%S %p\"
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        An introduction for the time format parameters are available here<\/a>.<\/li>\n

      4. Set “Blog entry date display” to “Show the blog entry date in the header\u201d<\/li>\n
      5. From some users’ feedback, I noticed themes of live space differ slightly in structure, which may lead to failure of this program. So please change your live space theme to “Journey” (the same as my experiment space<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
      6. Run the live-space-mover.py script. In Windows, open the command line (win+R, enter “cmd” and return), change to the directory (use “c:”\/”d:” to change disk, use “cd” command to change directory, please google it for help if need) of live-space-mover.py, run command like this
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        \npython live-space-mover.py -s http:\/\/yourspaceid.spaces.live.com\/
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        \nReplace the example parameter with your own. This will generate an XML file named “export_xxxxx.xml” in the same directory of this script, which is in WordPress export file format.<\/li>\n
      7. Use the import function in WordPress to import the XML file generated in the last step, remember to choose “WordPress” type in the import page, rather than “LiveJournal” or something else.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Notes<\/h4>\n