Project to map a Blogger XML dump to something that you could put into a static site generator.
We will optionally require pandoc to work, because it translates the body of the posts from HTML to Markdown.
We're going to produce the HTML body as postname.html, then call pandoc (if present and requested) to create postname.md.
Then we will create postname.yaml to cover the front matter (if requested).
The HTML file will have its file system date set to the post date so that it will import OK. We don't need to with Markdown
files because that's what the YAML is for.
We're going to allow front matter:
- title, author, tags, date (pubdate unless there's an an updated date which is later)
---
title: Clean Dry Surface
author: Mauvedeity
tags:
- reviews
- surfacereview
- hardware
date: 2024-05-20T18:33:00.001+01:00
---The tags come from the XML:
<category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surfacereview' />There are list of these values - I think Eleventy uses them. Basically we'll stick this front matter into the postname.yaml file, and we can then combine if needed.
We're going to have to parse the extracted HTML, and do the following:
Change the links from external to internal and relative. We are recreating the folder path and slug so should be OK. We also need to remap the extension to md if we're targeting Markdown.
For these, we can extract the path from the <img> tag. We can then pull down the file (if it doesn't exist already) to a file. Then rewrite the image path in the link to be local and relative (perhaps /image/ or some such.
)