Comments on: Escape from Typepad

By: Getimages

Getimages — Sat, 05 May 2012 08:31:38 +0000

[...] I wrote this script to get the images from a typepad blog, there is a great guide for this here. (P.S. this proved moast usefull when typepad showed differend image names when downloading the [...]

By: Nuthatch

Nuthatch — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:17:26 +0000

Thanks for that tip! I sort of expect that things have evolved on both the Typepad and WordPress ends, so it’s good to know that the basic bones still work.

By: collin

collin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:14:11 +0000

Thank you! Saved me tons of time. I had to do one extra step:

All of our images were surrounded by links that would popup a full-size image. Once I download all of the images using DownThemAll, I ran a two-line bash script inside from inside that directory to download all of the “-popup” images and then rename them with the “.html” extension so they would be served properly by my new WP blog:
$ for img in *; do curl -O “http://yourdomain.com/.a/${img/\-[0-9][0-9][0-9][a-z][a-z]/-popup}”; done
$ for f in *-popup; do mv $f $f.html; done

Do this for each of the paths your images are under. For me they were all under “/.a/”. You might have to play with the regex a little, depending on the sizes of your images.

Then, using the same Search-Regex plugin you mentioned, I also had to do search and replace for -popup” to -popup.html” to fix all image popups.

Thanks again!

By: I’ve moved from Dreamhost to Bluehost, so keep your fingers crossed!

I’ve moved from Dreamhost to Bluehost, so keep your fingers crossed! — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:13:48 +0000

[...] and chose Dreamhost.com as my webhost. I chose Dreamhost mostly because I was loosely following this guide and wanted keep the process as simple as possible. After less than a month, however, I started [...]

By: cisco ccna training

cisco ccna training — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:32:08 +0000

Thank you for your insights. But what you do you think usually it takes fro transferring data? Like in my business configuration.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:22:39 +0000

Is there any way I could hire you to export my typepad blog to wordpress? If so, please email me to discuss if you are interested…

By: Downloads

Downloads — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:50:02 +0000

By: getting remote images off site

getting remote images off site — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:07:31 +0000

[...] I wrote this script to get the images from a typepad blog, there is a great guide for this here. [...]

By: M van Dijk

M van Dijk — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:34:23 +0000

For my cousin I followed your guide, he was blogging from back to 2006. For some images I wrote a custom php script cause the firefox plugin (DTA) was rewriting theire names for some reason which caused problems. Anyone can ask me for that under above website.
Big hassle but verry glad for the great help of this guide! Thanks heaps!

By: Joolie

Joolie — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:12:14 +0000

Ten minutes ago I was naively operating under the assumption that exporting my posts from Typepad couldn’t possibly be *that* bad, so after reading this post I kind of want to cry. Thanks for all the information. It’s very useful.