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| 1 | +# Export Your Squarespace Site to XML |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +## Links |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +- [Squarespace: Exporting your site](https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/206566687-Exporting-your-site) |
| 6 | +- Your Squarespace import-export panel: `https://<your-site>.squarespace.com/config/settings/website/import-export` |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +## How to export your Squarespace site to XML |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +Note: |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +- You can only export one "blog" type at a time |
| 13 | +- It doesn't allow you to export in a format other than Wordpress, but Squarespace's docs say you don't have to import it into Wordpress. Whatever that means. I guess we'll see. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +1. In the **Import & Export Content** page of your website settings, select **Export** |
| 17 | +2. Select **Wordpress** (which as of April was your only option) |
| 18 | +3. Confirm. You will now see your download processing. |
| 19 | +4. When your download is ready, select **Download** |
| 20 | +5. Select your save location. What saves will be an XML file. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +## Sample output |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +```xml |
| 25 | +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
| 26 | +<rss xmlns:excerpt="http://wordpress.org/export/1.2/excerpt/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:wp="http://wordpress.org/export/1.2/"> |
| 27 | + <channel> |
| 28 | + <title>Lacey Henschel</title> |
| 29 | + <link>https://www.mywebsite.com</link> |
| 30 | + <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2017 03:46:14 +0000</pubDate> |
| 31 | + <description /> |
| 32 | + <language>en-US</language> |
| 33 | + <wp:wxr_version>1.2</wp:wxr_version> |
| 34 | + <wp:author> |
| 35 | + <wp:author_id>966804475</wp:author_id> |
| 36 | + < wp:author_login> [email protected]</ wp:author_login> |
| 37 | + < wp:author_email> [email protected]</ wp:author_email> |
| 38 | + <wp:author_display_name><![CDATA[Lacey Henschel]]></wp:author_display_name> |
| 39 | + <wp:author_first_name><![CDATA[Lacey]]></wp:author_first_name> |
| 40 | + <wp:author_last_name><![CDATA[Henschel]]></wp:author_last_name> |
| 41 | + </wp:author> |
| 42 | + <wp:category> |
| 43 | + <wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Personal - null]]></wp:cat_name> |
| 44 | + <wp:category_nicename>Personal-null</wp:category_nicename> |
| 45 | + <wp:category_parent /> |
| 46 | + </wp:category> |
| 47 | + <item> |
| 48 | + <link>/about</link> |
| 49 | + <title>About Lacey</title> |
| 50 | + <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:57:45 +0000</pubDate> |
| 51 | + <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="sqs-html-content"> |
| 52 | + <h1 style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Hi there! I’m Lacey.</h1><p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Here is more data about me.</p> |
| 53 | + </div> |
| 54 | + </content:encoded> |
| 55 | +
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| 56 | + <item> |
| 57 | + <title>A blog post title </title> |
| 58 | + <link>/path/to/post</link> |
| 59 | + <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="sqs-html-content"> |
| 60 | + <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Here is some blog content! </p> |
| 61 | + </div>]]></content:encoded> |
| 62 | + <excerpt:encoded /> |
| 63 | + <wp:post_name>path/to/post</wp:post_name> |
| 64 | + <wp:post_type>post</wp:post_type> |
| 65 | + <wp:post_id>3</wp:post_id> |
| 66 | + <wp:status>publish</wp:status> |
| 67 | + <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:16:18 +0000</pubDate> |
| 68 | + <wp:post_date>2023-01-13 19:16:18</wp:post_date> |
| 69 | + <wp:post_date_gmt>2023-01-13 19:16:18</wp:post_date_gmt> |
| 70 | + <category domain="post_tag" nicename="tag-1"><![CDATA[weeknotes]]></category> |
| 71 | + <category domain="post_tag" nicename="tag-2"><![CDATA[art]]></category> |
| 72 | + < dc:creator> [email protected]</ dc:creator> |
| 73 | + <wp:comment_status>closed</wp:comment_status> |
| 74 | + </item> |
| 75 | + </channell> |
| 76 | +</rss> |
| 77 | +``` |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +This is a heavily redacted and thinned version of what exported for me, and I don't have that many blog posts for how old my blog is -- I'm a very inconsistent blogger. |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +## Goals |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +I think I finally want to move my blog off Squarespace and into mkdocs or Wagtail or something else. Not sure. At the very least, I want to convert what is there to a more useful format and have it stored somewhere I can attach version control to it. |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +Now I have this XML copy of my site and we're going to figure out what to do next with it. |
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