Google's Data Liberation team built a Java application for importing and exporting Google Sites. The application lets you export the pages from a site and all their attachments to a folder.
"The folder structure of an exported site is meant to mimic the Sites UI as closely as possible. Thus if exporting to a directory "rootdirectory," a top-level page normally located at webspace/pagename, would be in a file named index.html, located in rootdirectory/pagename. A subpage of that page, normally located at webspace/pagename/subpage, would be in a file named index.html in rootdirectory/pagename/subpage. Attachments are downloaded to the same directory as the index.html page to which they belong," mentions the user guide.
You should only enter the domain name if you use Google Apps. "Webspace" is the name of your site: http://sites.google.com/site/sitename/.
Unfortunately, you can't use this tool to import HTML files to an existing site. The importing option is only useful for the sites exported using the same application.
Importing copies google sites content to the machine running the tool, while exporting copies the content to google sites. I expected import/export to be relative to google sites, but it is termed relative to the machine running the application.
ReplyDeleteImporting a site worked fine. Exporting wouldn't work to a apps domain. The tool claimed to succeed, but no content appeared on the site. Exporting to sites.google.com seems to get the tool stuck with a neverending progress bar.
Oops. I got that backwards. The tools sticks if you try to export a site with no content, but the import/export is relative to google sites.
ReplyDeleteDoes this work with Google Pages or just sites?
ReplyDeleteI can't get this tool to export a google site. Anyone try it recently?
ReplyDeleteIt's working for me wonderfully on an Apps account. Looks like they got the bugs out.
ReplyDeleteThis is working pretty well for exporting, but certain inherent properties of site like navigations don't work.
ReplyDeleteWill this tool work if SSO is enable for Google Enterprise Apps.
ReplyDeleteThis tool doesn't seem to work for me. It hangs after downloading 1 or 2 pages.
ReplyDeleteThe tool said I imported successfully from a directory to a site, but when I opened the site, none of the content from the directory was there.
ReplyDeleteall fine but it doesnt fetch almost any page formatting and you have to edit the code HEAVILY bfore it can be of any use
ReplyDeletewell i guess it is better than nothing
Not sure if this has been mentioned previously but if you are using 2-step authentication for your Google user account the app will error with "Invalid user credentials." I just used another account without 2-step auth enabled. You may be able to use a application specific password but I did not test it.
ReplyDeleteI just tested using an Application specific password and it works great
ReplyDelete> you have to edit the code HEAVILY bfore it can be of any use
ReplyDeleteI'm looking at an exported page someone sent me and its rife with (unusable) CSS style commands and relative href paths.
Is there any way to get the basic XHTML content? Or even just the text?
There are nearly 400 pages we need to convert to another wiki format and I can't imagine how to write a parser that would remove all of the unusable parts.
I used this tool but it not export to utf-8. Why it don't export to sql. Thanks.
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