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Thanks for sharing this project, was just thinking about trying to write something like this. Looks very promising.

I just tried giving this a whirl to download my the disqus comments that currently appear on my Jekyll blog into a _comments/ directory (hoping to use this to save my old comments while I transition to a static-email comments system).

I register an application with Disqus to get a public API key as you indicate. Then I clone this repo, add a _config.yml with the data indicated, create a _comments dir, and run rake disquscomments as indicated.

This executes without error (the only message is jekyll loading the config file), but nothing seems to happen, and _comments is still empty. What did I miss?

Many thanks for the help!

-- Carl (@cboettig)

p.s. I'm a bit confused about the workflow you envision here. I imagine a one-time run that will extract all my disqus comments into local yaml files inside _comments that I can then embed into posts with liquid, following your example template in the _includes directory. It seems like you imagine a more continuous synchronizing between disqus and the local yaml? Can you clarify this?

Got this error trying to run the rake command with Jekyll 3.x. Any thoughts?

It seems to stem from the Jekyll site generation portion. Maybe an alternate route would be to compose the URL lists from the generated site and the _config.yml file?

Is this code salvageable?

This was some of the first Ruby code I had ever written, and I didn't really bother to learn anything about the language or ecosystem before diving in; I just wanted to get my comments on my blog.

If I were to write this today, it would be written as a Gem, and the template would not rely on a plugin but would instead use Jekyll's new where_exp filter. There would be some clear tests to make sure that the dang thing works.

Is it worth trying to update this code? Should I just start over and try to reimplement this as a part of jekyll-import?