A simple tool with easy understandable UI to let you export your MSN Live Space blog to WordPress XML in just one click.
LiveSpaceSaver v1.0 (download)
Features:
1. Easy understandable UI
2. Activity log show exporting progress
3. Minimum input no command-line
Pre-conditions Prior Use:
1. Change your blog name, refer below "How To Use"
2. Create "Secrete Word" in your blog settings
3. Change time format to "m/d/yyyy" via your blog General Options->Date and Time format"
How To Use:
1. Fill your blog name in "your-blog-name" field, e.g. fill the blue string http://mytestblog.spaces.live.com, make sure that you’re using a name choosed by yourself via your Live Space in Browser, Options->More Options->Web Address
2. Fill your blog’s secrete code, you can set this via Options -> Email Publishing -> Step 2 Secrete Word
3. Choose a default category for those imported posts, default set as "MSN Space", you can change to whatever you want
4. Hit "Export" and wait, it will take a while which depends on your internet connection speed and amount of the posts
Change Logs:
2009-03-09 Initial release
Let me know if this tool works in your hand……Enjoy
Development Tool:
1. SharpDevelop v3.0.0 Build 3800
2. Microsoft MetaWeblogAPI
3. CookComputing.XmlRpcV2
9 Comments
at 5:02 am - 16th March 2009 Permalink
What is the “secret word” used for in this tool? To access some API provided by Live Space?
BTW, does this support comments export?
at 10:13 am - 16th March 2009 Permalink
You can create secret word in your blog which is used for email article publishing. E.g., in your browser, login to you space, go to Options -> Email Publishing -> Step 2 Secrete Word.
Comment exporting is not supported at the moment.
at 11:05 am - 16th March 2009 Permalink
@sun Thanks, I know the secret word is for EMail publishing, what I want to know is why an exporting tool needs this password.
at 12:25 am - 17th March 2009 Permalink
In MetaBlogAPI, to get a post I use method: metaWeblog.getPost (postid, username, password) returns struct. It requires username & password, here the password is the secrete word. Other wise it throws exception. Check MetaBlogAPI spec in below 2 links:
http://www.xmlrpc.com/metaWeblogApi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaWeblog
Hope it could explain your question.
at 11:05 am - 23rd March 2009 Permalink
Tutorial in Spanish. Thanks sun
http://mmadrigal.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1989B873A580CA12!59137.entry
at 4:32 pm - 24th March 2009 Permalink
Great work MMadrigal!
I am considering of adding features like exporting comments. Will do this these days! Thanks again!
at 11:44 am - 26th March 2009 Permalink
Thanks to you. See you
at 3:16 pm - 9th April 2009 Permalink
find new version v1.0.3 in below url. you have the option to export your blog comments….
http://suncan.net/2009/04/live-space-saver-v103-capable-to-export-comments/
at 7:10 am - 14th January 2010 Permalink
I have a problem. My blog is in Italian and I have not the possibility to set the date format to “m/d/y” instead I can just set it to “d/m/y”. Can you think about adding this feature in the next version? If you want I can help coding it if you send me the source code.
Thank you for releasing this great tool!
Federico
Post a Comment