How to Import Blog Content to Blogger via XML

Have you ever used the Blogger import functionality? It is designed to only import XML that you have exported from Blogger, like if you wanted to move a blog from one domain to another. But, what if you want to just import a blog post to your Blogger blog? It would be nice to have the capability to create blog articles using XML and just import. Unfortunately, its not that simple and you will probably get a lot of errors on import. So, I did some research, and I have figured out a way to do it, you just need to have specially formated xml.

If you want to just import a simple blog post to Blogger via xml you can use the following xml code, just replace "test" with whatever you want:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<ns0:feed xmlns:ns0="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><ns0:generator>Blogger</ns0:generator><ns0:entry><ns0:category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post" /><ns0:id>test</ns0:id><ns0:content type="html">test</ns0:content><ns0:title type="html">test</ns0:title></ns0:entry></ns0:feed>

If you want to import an article and give it a particular category, then you can use this code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<ns0:feed xmlns:ns0="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><ns0:generator>Blogger</ns0:generator><ns0:entry><ns0:category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="test" /><ns0:category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post" /><ns0:id>test</ns0:id><ns0:content type="html">test</ns0:content><ns0:title type="html">test</ns0:title></ns0:entry></ns0:feed>

Finally, if you want to import a blog article via XML with time and category you can use this code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<ns0:feed xmlns:ns0="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><ns0:generator>Blogger</ns0:generator><ns0:entry><ns0:category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="test" /><ns0:category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post" /><ns0:id>test</ns0:id><ns0:content type="html">test</ns0:content><ns0:published>2011-09-26T20:16:54Z</ns0:published><ns0:title type="html">test</ns0:title></ns0:entry></ns0:feed>

It might be also useful to check out the Blogger API information from Google. Finally, if you are looking for a way to post XML code in Blogger as I have done in this post, just use this Encode / Decode HTML Entities Tool.