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whats the best way to dump all my content ? I've looked at their json api but was hoping someone has written an easy script to convert this to something usable

whats the best way to dump all my content ? I've looked at their json api but was hoping someone has written an easy script to convert this to something usable to replace my blog/personal page.

klaut 14y ago
i imported all my posterous, other blogs stuff into jekyll: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations (mind you, the original posterous migration from jekyll does not work anymore, so you will have to use this one https://github.com/pepijndevos/jekyll/blob/patch-1/lib/jekyll/migrators/posterous.rb https://github.com/pepijndevos/jekyll/blob/patch-1/lib/jekyl... ) then with jekyll you can host your blog as github pages - this, to me, seems like the best option to anything that is out there.
- chubs 14y ago
  I can attest to doing the same. Now i'm on jekyll+S3 and haven't looked back - it's great! Having said that, the jekyll posterous image exporter i couldn't get to work. But i don't post many photos so that didn't worry me.
- bhousel 14y ago
  I'm a big fan of octopress now, which is just jekyll with some rake tasks and plugins already set up to make things even easier to get started.. https://github.com/imathis/octopress https://github.com/imathis/octopress
yesbabyyes 14y ago
I have written a small static blog engine/cms which can (or at least could) export your blog from Posterous. You'll get it out as html, I think. https://github.com/hanssonlarsson/diurna https://github.com/hanssonlarsson/diurna
mariocesar 14y ago
RSS, will work for your posts, most CMS/Blog systems have the feature to import from a RSS feed, in my case I'm using django-zinnia. $ python manage.py feed2zinnia http://blog.grupones.com.bo/rss.xml And it's ready. I'm looking into the API to export users and subscribers, once I have that will be all. (Right now the posterous api site is down) However I must say, I'm not happily moving out, I love posterous, I will miss email integration, and user management. It's nothing that I can made by myself, but was nice having that features with out developing. PD: There is also this guy → https://exportmyposts.jazzychad.net/ https://exportmyposts.jazzychad.net/ that made a more complete backup using posterous API, you can buy it starting from 9$us. There is nothing someone can develop using the posterous API
- dmd 14y ago
  I'm a very happy Jazzychad customer. His export works great, and he's extremely responsive to feedback and bug reports.

whats the best way to dump all my content ? I've looked at their json api but was hoping someone has written an easy script to convert this to something usable to replace my blog/personal page.

klaut 14y ago

i imported all my posterous, other blogs stuff into jekyll: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations (mind you, the original posterous migration from jekyll does not work anymore, so you will have to use this one https://github.com/pepijndevos/jekyll/blob/patch-1/lib/jekyll/migrators/posterous.rb https://github.com/pepijndevos/jekyll/blob/patch-1/lib/jekyl... ) then with jekyll you can host your blog as github pages - this, to me, seems like the best option to anything that is out there.

chubs 14y ago
I can attest to doing the same. Now i'm on jekyll+S3 and haven't looked back - it's great! Having said that, the jekyll posterous image exporter i couldn't get to work. But i don't post many photos so that didn't worry me.
bhousel 14y ago
I'm a big fan of octopress now, which is just jekyll with some rake tasks and plugins already set up to make things even easier to get started.. https://github.com/imathis/octopress https://github.com/imathis/octopress

yesbabyyes 14y ago

I have written a small static blog engine/cms which can (or at least could) export your blog from Posterous. You'll get it out as html, I think. https://github.com/hanssonlarsson/diurna https://github.com/hanssonlarsson/diurna

mariocesar 14y ago

RSS, will work for your posts, most CMS/Blog systems have the feature to import from a RSS feed, in my case I'm using django-zinnia. $ python manage.py feed2zinnia http://blog.grupones.com.bo/rss.xml And it's ready. I'm looking into the API to export users and subscribers, once I have that will be all. (Right now the posterous api site is down) However I must say, I'm not happily moving out, I love posterous, I will miss email integration, and user management. It's nothing that I can made by myself, but was nice having that features with out developing. PD: There is also this guy → https://exportmyposts.jazzychad.net/ https://exportmyposts.jazzychad.net/ that made a more complete backup using posterous API, you can buy it starting from 9$us. There is nothing someone can develop using the posterous API

dmd 14y ago
I'm a very happy Jazzychad customer. His export works great, and he's extremely responsive to feedback and bug reports.