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# Importing Comments
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**Note**: Contributions to this section are welcomed!
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When moving to Pelican and the Pelican Comment System, it may be desirable to move over your comments as well.
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The scripts to support this are found in the `import` directory.
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## Blogger
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Blogger is good in that it will give you an export of everything, but the bad news is it's one giant XML file. XML is great if you're a computer, but a bit of a pain if you're a human.
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The code I used to export my comments from Blogger is found at [blogger_comment_export.py](../import/blogger_comment_export.py).
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To use it
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yourself, you will need to first adjust the constants at the beginning of the
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script (lines 26-33) to point to your Blogger XML export and where you want
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the comments to be exported to. You will also need to install `untangle`
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(available through pip -- `pip install untangle`).
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Comments will be exported into folders matching
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the Blogger slug of the post. The email for all authors will be `noreply@blogger.com`. The other file created will be `authors.txt`
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which lists the various comment authors, and a link to the profile
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picture used on Blogger. These pictures will need to be manually downloaded
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and then configured using the `PELICAN_COMMENT_SYSTEM_AUTHORS` setting.
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In my case, that looked like this:
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```python
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# in pelicanconf.py
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PELICAN_COMMENT_SYSTEM_AUTHORS = {
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('PROTIK KHAN', 'noreply@blogger.com'): "images/authors/rabiul_karim.webp",
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('Matthew Hartzell', 'noreply@blogger.com'): "images/authors/matthew_hartzell.webp",
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('Jens-Peter Labus', 'noreply@blogger.com'): "images/authors/jens-peter_labus.png",
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('Bridget', 'noreply@blogger.com'): "images/authors/bridget.jpg",
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('melissaclee', 'noreply@blogger.com'): "images/authors/melissa_lee.jpg",
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('Melissa', 'noreply@blogger.com'): "images/authors/melissa_lee.jpg"
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}
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```
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The script was developed for Python 3.6, but should work on Python 3.4+
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without modification.
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For more information on this script on, you can read my
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[blog post](http://blog.minchin.ca/2016/12/blogger-comments-exported.html)
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where I introduced it.
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-- Wm. Minchin (@MinchinWeb), January 10, 2017
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