Export from WordPress

[Kayza]

I have a wordpress site that needs to be totally revamped. The content is OK, it's just everything else that needs to be redone.

I'd like to pull the text out - I don't need formatting and I definitely want there to NOT be the HTML tags. Is there any way to do this?

[terrie]

I've never gotten around to doing anything with WP but I think there are a couple of members who have used it (still use it?). Until they arrive with their words of wisdom, I found a few links that might prove useful--in no particular order:


1. WP's own support info on exporting...


2. 3rd party info that looks pretty comprehensive...



3. Another 3rd party site that looks useful...




Keep us posted on how it's going.




Terrie

[Kayza]

Thanks!


I'll give a look at these.

[Kayza]

So, this is not really what I want. This will give me the XML and let me migrate the whole site over. But I don't want to do that. I really only want to pull the actual text. (I already have backups of the site.)

[Barrie Greed]

Originally Posted by Kayza

So, this is not really what I want. This will give me the XML and let me migrate the whole site over. But I don't want to do that. I really only want to pull the actual text. (I already have backups of the site.)

Sounds to me that you need to be using regular expressions to get this done.


Try searching Google with regex search to remove html tags which should throw up some options. You will need some basic scripting ability using something like javascript or python.


Let me know if you need further help and I will try to assist but I am no expert.



Barrie Greed

[Bo Aakerstrom]

Look into web scraping - Beautiful Soup is a Python based tool for this.

Since it is your website it is OK to scrape it, stealing other people's content isn't. Just sayin'

[Kayza]

Originally Posted by Bo Aakerstrom

Look into web scraping - Beautiful Soup is a Python based tool for this.

Since it is your website it is OK to scrape it, stealing other people's content isn't. Just sayin'

I hadn't thought about web scraping. I mean most of the time, why would you need to scrape your own content, right? But it just might be the right approach here.

[Steve Rindsberg]

Looks like there are lots of web scraper extensions for Chrome. And all sorts of other things when you google web scrape or the like. Some have clever names (Octoparse!) but I'm amazed that a google search doesn't turn up one named "ScrapeGoat". Seems so OBVIOUS!

[terrie]

LOL!!!!



Terrie

[terrie]

kayza: I really only want to pull the actual text. (I already have backups of the site.)

Ahhhh...I thought one of the options those approaches might offer would be exactly that because it seems to me to a fairly commmon need...so...sorry about that...


My guess is that you have a lot of pages so that manually doing a select all and then copy would be too tedious?




Terrie