I’ve decided to start blogging again and my old blog at http://juju.org was running an ancient version of Typo.  For various reasons, I’ve decided I don’t have the time to administer a whole web server just for my little blog.  So I decided to move to a hosted service and settled on Tumblr.  (I also decided to finally put away childish things and register http://tonybuser.com)  Unfortunately, there’s no way to import a Typo blog to Tumblr.  So this has given me a good excuse to finally play around with the HTTParty and Hpricot ruby gems.  During my adventures in trying out different blog services and importing all my old posts, I had already exported my Typo blog to Wordpress XML format.  Then to import a Wordpress file to Tumblr was simple.  Here’s the script:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "rubygems"
require "hpricot"
require "httparty"

class Tumblr
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'www.tumblr.com'
  
  EMAIL     = "[YOUR_EMAIL]"
  PASSWORD  = "[YOUR_PASSWORD]"
end

doc = open("wp.xml") { |f| Hpricot(f) }

(doc/"item").each do |item|
  params = {
    "email"     => Tumblr::EMAIL,
    "password"  => Tumblr::PASSWORD,
    "type"      => "regular",
    "format"    => "html",
    "generator" => "Ruby + HTTParty Import Script",
    "date"      => item.at('wp:post_date').innerHTML,
    "title"     => item.at('title').innerHTML,
    "body"      => item.at('content:encoded').innerHTML,
    "tags"      => (item/"category").collect{|category| category.innerHTML}.join(","),
    "group"     => "[YOUR_ACCOUNT].tumblr.com"
  }

  puts Tumblr.post("/api/write", :body => params).inspect
end