No-Go Importing Paged Atom Feeds
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Today I was pondering importing all of my old posts into WordPress. This is not quite as simple as you might think when trying to import from a custom blog platform. WordPress has this handy RSS Import plugin, but it requires the XML to be a file on your hard drive.
No problem, right? You just open up the source of the feed on the old site (which, in my case, is actually an Atom feed) and save it to a file. Wait, not so fast. That old feed has like 5000 posts in it. And the feed only shows the last 15. There’s a whole chain of rel=next links to follow to get the entire feed, 15 at a time.
Okay, a small setback, but easy to solve. I’ll just Google and find a tool that will download a paged Atom feed to a big file on my hard drive. Well, hours later, apparently nobody has ever written such a tool. What-The-Eff.
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