Posted by modoo on May 26, 2015 at 1:53am
I have a client that has 7000 old static HTML pages that I need to import into Drupal. I have looked at using Import HTML (https://www.drupal.org/project/import_html) and Migrate, but the setup for these modules is simply over my head. For HTML Import, it makes you install HTML Tidy but I have no idea how to install that on their hosting server. When I try without HTML Tidy, it doesn't work.
I also looked at using Migrate per this post: http://fourword.fourkitchens.com/article/migrating-old-html-files-drupal But again, its over my head on how to configure it to work on my client's site.
Has anyone done something like this before? Can you help me? I'm willing to pay someone for the help in importing as it would save me TONS of time.
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Hi, Were you able to get the
Hi,
Were you able to get the Import HTML module to work on your local or test environment? If so, you could import the HTML files locally and then use a combination of the Node Export and Features modules to move the new nodes to your production environment.
thanks,
Randy
I'd have to agree with the
I'd have to agree with the above comment. You really need to do this stuff in phases and using your local environment is the way to go. Hopefully the HTML files follow a similar pattern, if that is the case you could also use another web scrapper and get the stuff into a CSV file or something similar. Then use something like node export, to actually import the content to the website.