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However, tumblr does not provide an easy way to export your content. This makes it not viable as a blogging platform for me.
by masnick 15y ago
However, tumblr does not provide an easy way to export your content.
This makes it not viable as a blogging platform for me.
- rglover 15y agoHow about using the Tumblr2Wordpress tool by WooThemes? Granted, it's not the best thing but it would keep your data and you'd be able to migrate to a solution that's easily self-hosted.
- there 15y agoyour content is in html, how is it not easy to export?
- masnick 15y agoCome on. It would require non-trivial work to scrape the pages to get the html, set up parsing to handle different types of content, get into a format that could be imported into something else, etc. Not something I'm willing to spend my time setting up, and what about all the people who might want to export their tumblr content but can't program.
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- icebraining 15y agoThe problem is not the transport format - HTML is no worse than JSON or XML - it's the lack of a standard schema. For e.g. Wordpress to import Tumblr blogs they need to write an importer just for Tumblr's format, whereas if Tumblr used a standard like RSS, WP could use a generalist importer. Don't underestimate the value of standard formats; the transport mechanism (XML/JSON/HTML) is a small detail.
- Otto42 15y agoYeah, writing that importer was certainly annoying. Tumblr's formats are nutty and weird. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tumblr-importer/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tumblr-importer/
- rwolf 15y agoOwn your identity. Give all your data to Tumblr.