Creating import file

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by bellcom, Sep 7, 2014.

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    I have some vacation rental sites and for years I used to be able to iframe your reviews from other sites like vrbo but that make that hard now and include extra info.

    So now some clients want the reviews on their wordpress site and don't want any links to any vrbo content so I need to move the reviews and use them as posts in the wordpress site.

    It will take for ever to create alll the posts one at a time copying & pasting. I can use something like wp all import but I don't know an easy way to create the csv or xml file from the content that on the vrbo website.

    VRBO doesn't have any sort of an export for your reviews so what would be a good way to get the reviews from a website into my wordpress posts?

    Thanks!
     
    bellcom, Sep 7, 2014 IP
  2. kutchbhi

    kutchbhi Active Member

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    Web scraping - basically a program that will scan the other websites and extract the required reviews storing them in a csv / xml file. Which then can be imported. For PHP one uses cURL for this.
    If you are not a programmer then you can hire someone (like me ;) ), who knows about web scraping.
     
    kutchbhi, Sep 8, 2014 IP
  3. bellcom

    bellcom Well-Known Member

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    Ok, will send you a PM
     
    bellcom, Sep 8, 2014 IP