Importing Blogger into Jekyll

So I believe I have the basics up and running I have the blog published on github and I have analytics added so the next thing is too import all my old Blogger posts, now there isn’t that many I’m not exactly a prolific blogger.

The Jekyll project has a set of importers for other blogs, blogger included, instructions are here

Install jekyll import

sudo gem install jekyll-import
Password:
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2 gems installed

Export Blogger

Follow instructions here

Import Blogger

ruby -rubygems -e 'require "jekyll-import";
    JekyllImport::Importers::Blogger.run({
      "source"                => "//Users/David/Downloads/blog-06-23-2015.xml",
      "no-blogger-info"       => false, # not to leave blogger-URL info (id and old URL) in the front matter
      "replace-internal-link" => true, # replace internal links using the post_url liquid tag.
    })'

Done

While it has worked it’s all different kinds of ugly. Well it’s eye of the beholder stuff I guess after getting used to blogging in markdown the giant blocks of html sure look terrible now and will be a real pain to update. All internal links to my own pages still seem to point to the Blogger version, guess the internal link detection has a few terms and conditions I didn’t obey when using Blogger and lastly all the images still seem to be hosted on Blogger as well. Done doesn’t mean done as I’m still dependent on Blogger, but the initial import was easy.