Glosa Disqus import

Export comments from Disqus (XML format) to a simple JSON.

[
  {
    "id": 2166957614,
    "parent": 29293782,
    "createdAt": 1352672642,
    "author": "Quijote",
    "thread": "https://programadorwebvalencia.com/clojure-que-es-y-para-que-sirve/",
    "message": "<p>Curioso sí que parece...</p>"
  },{
    "id": 2166957615,
    "parent": 51293771,
    ...

Superpowers:

• Transform dates to unix time.
• It unifies the children and the comments.
• Keep the reference to the parents.
• It removes irrelevant data.

Prerequisites: export the comment XML from Disqus

1. Enter the Disqus Administrative panel.

2. Enter to Community.

3. Click in Export.

You will receive an email with all the compressed comments.

Usage

1. Make sure you have Java installed.

2. Download the latest version of import (glosa-disqus-import-{version}-standalone.jar).

https://github.com/glosa/glosa-disqus-import/releases

3. Decompress Disqus export. You will get an XML.

4. Runs.

java -jar glosa-disqus-import-x.x.x-standlone.jar [file]

Example

java -jar glosa-disqus-import-x.x.x-standlone.jar myblog-2020-03-04T18%3A36%3A47.800594-all.xml

In the same directory you will create the JSON.

Create your own JAR

1. Make sure you have openjdk or oracle-jdk installed, clojure and leiningen.

MacOS

brew install openjdk clojure leiningen

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install default-jdk clojure leiningen

2. Clone the repository and enter the generated folder.

git clone https://github.com/glosa/glosa-disqus-import.git
cd glosa-disqus-import

3. Run the following command to build a jar file.

lein uberjar

After this two files should be created in target/. We will use the standalone version: glosa-disqus-import-{version}-standalone.jar.