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your content is in html, how is it not easy to export?
by there 15y ago
your 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/