Importing from Roller to S9Y

[awseven]

(Thank you for this great blogging software, the forum and the great book written by Gavin)

I'm trying to import my old blog from my former employer into s9y. The old blogging software is Apache Roller (blogs.sun.com). I tried the RSS import but only got errors and no entries

I entered the RSS URL (http://blogs.sun.com/theraven/feed/entries/atom), hit import and got the following. Any idea and what I can do to get my old entries into s9y?

Starte Import-Vorgang ...
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Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/htdocs/w009ed59/blog/include/admin/importers/generic.inc.php on line 178

Warning: Serendipity_Import_Generic::import_wpxrss() [serendipity-import-generic.import-wpxrss]: Node no longer exists in /www/htdocs/w009ed59/blog/include/admin/importers/generic.inc.php on line 188

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/htdocs/w009ed59/blog/include/admin/importers/generic.inc.php on line 188

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /www/htdocs/w009ed59/blog/include/admin/importers/generic.inc.php on line 210
Import erfolgreich abgeschlossen!

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

The URL you mention there is a ATOM Feed; s9y currently only imports RSS feeds, mainly because our bundled Onyx library does not understand ATOM.

Also the RSS-Feed there would only add your latest 15 entries. I have never used Apache Roller, does it have a database backend from where you could get a SQL dump?

Regards,
Garvin

[awseven]

Gavin,

Roller has a DB (more than 5.000 blogs are hosted at blogs.sun.com with Roller). I don't have access to the DB, so it looks like l'm going to have a copy&paste session. Not too many articles anyway.

Thanks for your help,
Armin

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Another approach would be to use a tool like YahooPipes or FeedBurner to convert the ATOM feed into a RSS feed?

Regards,
Garvin

[awseven]

Good idea, I'll try...