Though I wasn't aware of Blaugust when I started the development of my Blogger Takeout Viewer app, it feels just right that it's finished now.

Since writing my very first post, I've always wanted some kind of continuity. Migrating my old posts to a new blog shows where I came from and how I changed over time and how I changed with time. TBH, I've never fully finished any post-copy activities, but I've always wanted to.

Now, that I've decided to leave Google behind, I can't wait forever. Of course Google Takeout helped me retrieve all my data, but Google did its best to provide it in a useless form. The feed was unordered, and the picture links didn't point to the image folder that was in the Takeout file but to the original cloud location.

That's why I created this app. It reads your feed, pulls the images, saves them in an organized manner, fixes the links and cleans up the posts. You can quickly copy the posts, or save them one-by-one, or export them to separate files or to a huge single one.

It is possible to make a post on my new blog, that has all the content from one of my old blogs. Like I did here manually earlier.

Of course there is always room for improvement. Metadata can be included in Pelican's format now, but the source is open, so if you use Jekyll or any other framework, you can add new export formats. I look forward to receive ideas and merge requests in the repository.

I'll be glad if you find this tool helpful for leaving Blogger behind in a more comfortable way.

The original version of this post is part of the Blaugust 2025 series on my blog along with:

• Video games that made me learn
• Blaugust