As part of New Leaf Digital's commitment to contributing back to the Drupal community, I created the Blogger Importer module, to import blogs from Blogger/Blogspot into Drupal. (The Data Liberation Front had solutions for Wordpress and other CMS's but not for Drupal.)

My use case was the migration of my 2006 motorcycle trip blog into Drupal. (Ever since Blogger limited the number of posts on a page, breaking the monthly archives, the blog was very difficult to navigate.) I'm in the process of migrating the content (comments are next, then theming), and I'll post an update here when it's moved.

There is a funny history to this: the very first module I wrote for Drupal was meant to solve the same use case - that time with my personal blog - but it relied on Blogger's FTP publishing (now defunct) and was aptly titled "Crazy Blogger Migrator," not suitable for public consumption. This one uses Blogger's XML export format and should be much better!

The code lives on NewLeafDigital's GitHub space, and will (unfortunately) be sync'd manually to Drupal's CVS repository until d.o is on Git. Releases can be downloaded at http://drupal.org/project/blogger_importer or from GitHub (but the latter is likely to be more up-to-date).

I'm very curious to hear who else has a use for this module - please let me know if you do, or if you have suggestions for additional functionality to add.

Update 9/12: The latest dev release now imports comments in addition to nodes. The release node should be here within the next 12 hours (when the d.o batch runs), in the meantime check out the latest from Github.