melix / jroller-export

Exports from JRoller.com to JBake compatible format

JRoller.com blog export tool

This utility will assist you in exporting your JRoller blog hosted on JRoller. As is, this tool:

• crawls public posts from your JRoller blog

• extracts contents from blog (post, date, tags, …​)

• converts them to asciidoc format using Pandoc

• copies the result into the content directory of a JBake blog

Prerequisites

You’ll need to have:

• the pandoc command line utility on path

• a directory for your blog initialized for JBake 2.2.0+

Usage

Clone this repository and edit the src/main/resources/config file:

• origin must be the URL of first blog post you published

• jbake_output is the path to your local JBake blog

• author is the name of the author you’d like to use

Then execute the following command:

./gradlew export

Output

For each page, the script will generate an asciidoc file in the content/[year]/[month]/[day] directory. You can check the result by running the jbake command.

Tweaking the script

This script has only been tested with my own blog. It is likely that you’ll have to make adaptations depending on the layout/theme of your own blog.