G+ -> Blogger
There's a case for providing a utility to make it easy to move your posts and their associated comments from G+ to a Blogger blog. There's a fairly good match (but not exact) between the G+ JSON Takeout format and the Blogger V3 API JSON import/export format. 4 routes to this I can think of.
1) It's self evident that since it all belongs to Google, they are best placed to provide a one click migration from Google Profile to Blogger blog.
2) A Google half way house would be for Google to produce Takeout in Atom format in addition to JSON and HTML. This can be used by the Blogger V2 API import/export. It's also understood and accepted by other blog platforms. (I think)
3) Social media delivery tools. eg IFTTT, DLVR.IT[1] These groups have the capability to do this, but for money. These systems are also biased towards cross-posting new content, not the old archives.
4) User-led development in 2 areas to produce custom code to extend takeout.
- Convert Takeout JSON files to Atom
- Import Takeout JSON direct into Blogger, WordPress and similar.
[1]dlvr.it were one of the groups that used the G+ API to grab new posts and turn them into an Atom feed. For a while there I was using them to auto-crosspost from G+ to Twitter and Facebook. I was also using their Atom feed to import direct into my own blog. Then facebook posting support disappeared. G+ input disappeared. I wrote my own G+ -> Atom utility. So all I've got left now using the dlvr.it free service is an auto-post to twitter whenever I post on G+ via my own atom feed.
[cross-posted from a comment on a post in RPG Escape Rocket https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RobertFreemanDay/posts/5827F5R3Aie ]
There's a case for providing a utility to make it easy to move your posts and their associated comments from G+ to a Blogger blog. There's a fairly good match (but not exact) between the G+ JSON Takeout format and the Blogger V3 API JSON import/export format. 4 routes to this I can think of.
1) It's self evident that since it all belongs to Google, they are best placed to provide a one click migration from Google Profile to Blogger blog.
2) A Google half way house would be for Google to produce Takeout in Atom format in addition to JSON and HTML. This can be used by the Blogger V2 API import/export. It's also understood and accepted by other blog platforms. (I think)
3) Social media delivery tools. eg IFTTT, DLVR.IT[1] These groups have the capability to do this, but for money. These systems are also biased towards cross-posting new content, not the old archives.
4) User-led development in 2 areas to produce custom code to extend takeout.
- Convert Takeout JSON files to Atom
- Import Takeout JSON direct into Blogger, WordPress and similar.
[1]dlvr.it were one of the groups that used the G+ API to grab new posts and turn them into an Atom feed. For a while there I was using them to auto-crosspost from G+ to Twitter and Facebook. I was also using their Atom feed to import direct into my own blog. Then facebook posting support disappeared. G+ input disappeared. I wrote my own G+ -> Atom utility. So all I've got left now using the dlvr.it free service is an auto-post to twitter whenever I post on G+ via my own atom feed.
[cross-posted from a comment on a post in RPG Escape Rocket https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RobertFreemanDay/posts/5827F5R3Aie ]
Surprised Blogger is still going to be honest.
ReplyDeleteTim Moore same here, especially since it's not the tool of choice for several Googlers to publish updates.
ReplyDeleteYeah me too. If I were to guess which of Google's platforms would be next to be axed, I'd guess blogger.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there are bookies who take bets on which Google service gets announced to be axed next, and what the odds are like ;)
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to be able to export to blogger
ReplyDeletemost of my posts are public
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ReplyDeleteInteresting.
ReplyDeleteLater this week I hope to have some sample code that showcases exporting either your Takeout archive data, or G+ API data, to the Blogger API client. (If Blogger API has write-access, that is.)
ReplyDeleteFirst want to finish my HTML and possibly Atom/RSS exporter.
Filip H.F. Slagter 😘😘😘
ReplyDeleteBlogger's Google, tho, so pick your poison
ReplyDeleteand I've hit a snag in my plans anyway... Turns out the old takeout dump I was coding against, has a different format than the current takeout json files... current format also seems to be lacking quite some metadata, such as the original content that hasn't been put through GPlus's HTML formatter.
ReplyDeleteDumpster fire.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why the GTakeout format no longer matches that of the API: https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/activities#resource
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GoogleNoCare.exe
ReplyDeleteBobbi Jo Woods and your feedback is not helpful.
ReplyDeleteYou might not be interested in tools, but others might. Your shitty comments however definitely aren't motivating.
I didn't say I wasn't interested in tools. You said you don't understand, I provided an answer, albeit a jokey one. I'm not happy with the data either, but I've faced facts it's time for me to forget about it. I have posts going back to 2011 I'd love to put into Blogger or whatever, but shrug, it's not going to happen.
ReplyDeleteYou yourself said you wonder what Google might ax next, so I said they don't care (they don't). If you don't like the way I phrased it, oopsie.
ReplyDeleteBobbi Jo Woods Don't be quite so defeatist. You * can * get your posts out of G+ with their comments and there's a strong possibility it will be possible to get them into another blogging platform such as Blogger or Wordpress. And the work of people like Filip H.F. Slagter (and myself) is exactly how that will happen.
ReplyDeleteFilip H.F. Slagter Blogger does have a POST method for inserting new posts with their comments. These can be either Atom format in Blogger V2 API or JSON in the V3. I think a G+Takeout.streams.posts -> Atom convertor is a good first step to that. It may not be the end goal, but it's a useful step that will teach us a lot about where the problems are.
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Julian Bond this was all I could find, back a couple weeks ago, after I took out HTML files from Google
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