This blog has been in deep lethar­gy for sev­er­al years. I’m not sure I can ­make it come back to life, but I’ll try, first of all by ex­plain­ing how I ­man­aged to mi­grate it from blog­ger to stat­ic site host­ing gen­er­at­ed by niko­la and host­ed on GAE (Google app en­gine).

Import in Nikola¶

Nikola proposes the plugin import_blogger which allows you to import an XML export file of blogger into the nikola file structure. You may install it with:

nikola plugin -i import_blogger

A niko­la project is then cre­at­ed with the com­mand:

nikola import_blogger -o name_of_blog blogger_export. xml

Then copy the generated configuration file (e.g. conf. py. import_blogger-20171228_142937 ) to the file conf. py and modify the configuration according to your wishes.

Blog ar­ti­cle files are gen­er­at­ed in html for­mat with a . meta file in re­struc­tured­text for­mat con­tain­ing the ar­ti­cle’s meta­da­ta.

Overall the conversion goes well and the rendering is acceptable. However, some articles require some tweaking. I get them through the tools: pandoc and html2text2 to get a version of the article in restructuredtext format to be taken up and modified by hand: