Transferring Disqus comments (from export) to Hashover about hashover

[jacobwb]

This is planned.

IP addresses can be stored by setting the $ip_addrs variable in settings.php to 'yes'

[jacmoe]

I have imported comments from Disqus using the following (dirty) code:

https://gist.github.com/jacmoe/e9d1ffdbd10c6022f71e394458c46da6

I assumes that the body of the comments is clean - which it should be, since it is from Disqus.
The script saves the comments as xml files named after the timestamp - then it is a small matter of sorting them and renaming them 1, 2, 3, ..

I hope it will serve as a starting point :)

[jacmoe]

Also, a proper encryption key (from settings) should be inserted into it :)
I am running the script in the shell.

[jacmoe]

The script does not check if the thread url is wrong - which it can be, if you accidentally use the Disqus code on localhost or other sites (forgot to change the script) - I just went through the exported xml and removed the erroneous threads.

If a thread url is wrong, it usually means that there are duplicate thread id's, which will (maybe) create problems.

Anyway: I hope this helps.

[jacobwb]

Thank you for the code @jacmoe!

There will be a way to import Disqus comments into HashOver eventually, but the format of the HashOver comment files/database needs to be finalized before the import code can/should be written.

In HashOver 2.0 some progress has been made in allowing a script to "emulate" posting a comment, so as long as there is a way to sort the Disqus comments than they will automatically be imported in the proper 1, 2, 3 naming scheme. This work isn't done, though, it needs to be made easier to allow importing comments from any other kind of comment system.