Acronym(?) for Blogger Post Summary (idk it sounds funny). It's a Python script to extract basic information from your Blogger blog posts.
Note. This script requires you to provide a JSON file instead of using the actual API. For more information, read about the limitations.
- Summarize your Blogger blog posts into a CSV file
- Generate HTML files for each post
- Python 3.10
- Experience using terminal/console
- Access to Google's Blogger API
Go to your Blogger posts (or entries) of the blog you want to review, and copy the large number at the end of the URL.
https://www.blogger.com/blog/posts/####################Save it for later.
There is an APIs Explorer for every Google service (for which it is available). For this case, we are only using Blogger's v3 APIs Explorer to get the post list from your blog.
Once you clicked the link above, read the first lines of the entry and click on Try it now. This will open up the APIs Explorer on your right side. Here, you can filter the list of posts as you please.
The required parameter here is blogId. It's time to bring your ID, bro.
Note. I recommend you to tweak the request parameters depending on the content you want to extract. As an example, this query returns up to 10 posts by default, but you can increase this number by changing the maxResults field.
After you're done doing so, click on API key checkbox and then Execute.
One note more. If you want to extract DRAFT posts as well, you'll have to click Google OAuth 2.0 checkbox as well due to its privacy properties. However, this requires you to create an app in Google Cloud (which is not that hard though, since Google is guiding you in the process).
Finally, a textbox will show up at the bottom of the drawer. This is the list of posts in JSON format. Copy its contents and paste them in a file with .json extension.
Assuming you've already installed Python and configured a venv, you can run the following script.
Tip. Whenever you are unsure how to run the command, -h option will be your friend!
This script will collect very basic stuff, like id, title, content and status.
The complete command is the following:
py get_blogger_posts_csv.py --input_filename <input_filename> --output_filename <output_filename> --output_document_directory <output_document_directory>All argument default options are the following:
| Argument | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|
input_filename |
input/blogger_posts.json | The input JSON file containing the Blogger posts in JSON format. |
output_filename |
output/blogger_posts_info.csv | The output CSV file containing all info from the posts. |
output_document_directory |
output/blogger_posts_docs | The output directory to store HTML posts. |
Note. HTML posts are named after their UNIX creation timestamp.
- As mentioned before, this script does not use the API directly. The main reason for this was the necessity to include Google OAuth 2.0 integration in the script, which was a bit overkill for the main purpose of this repo (I just wanted to manage my posts asap, lol).
The result will contain posts ordered by its UNIX timestamp ascendingly.
If there's any error with the script or this README, let me know by opening an issue, or maybe just throw me a message at my Twitter profile!