If you have an existing weblog on Blogger/Blogspot or MovableType/Typepad, you can now can easily import the entire blog. Just go the admin page and on the lower left you'll see "Import from Blogspot" and "Import from Blogger". Just click on the link and follow the instructions.

Task:

• create a plug-in for the Universal Feed Parser to read the MovableType Export Format

Input:

• is a stream of bytes 
  
• has an (optional) input charset, defaulting to latin-1
• is in the MovableType Export Format
• may contain comment entries
  

Output:

• a populated Universal Feed Parser object
• oldest entry first, newest last
• comments to immediately follow the appropriate entry in same date order
• comments to be identified using this and somehow marked in the entry
• categories to be identified using this
• all strings to be Unicode and properly decoded from the input source
• convert all unknown keys to lowercase, spaces to underscore and prefix with "mt_"

Testing:

• two input data sets will be provided (see attached documents)

Notes:

• please contact us if you want to undertake this project
• the code should be able to be "plugged in" to the UFP (there's no guarentee they'll add it to source base, so ideally it could be just call the right places in UFP)
• your code must be given to the UFP project without encumerance AND released under the Python License
  
• this spec was revised to make it a UFP "plugin"
• if this works out, there's probably more in the works for WordPress, GreyMatter, ...

Bounty Value (closed):

• USD $50 via PayPal