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Export Your Squarespace Site to XML

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How to export your Squarespace site to XML

Note:

  • You can only export one "blog" type at a time
  • 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.
  1. In the Import & Export Content page of your website settings, select Export
  2. Select Wordpress (which as of April was your only option)
  3. Confirm. You will now see your download processing.
  4. When your download is ready, select Download
  5. Select your save location. What saves will be an XML file.

Sample output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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/">
  <channel>
    <title>Lacey Henschel</title>
    <link>https://www.mywebsite.com</link>
    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2017 03:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
    <description />
    <language>en-US</language>
    <wp:wxr_version>1.2</wp:wxr_version>
    <wp:author>
      <wp:author_id>966804475</wp:author_id>
      <wp:author_login>redacted@redacted.com</wp:author_login>
      <wp:author_email>redacted@redacted.com</wp:author_email>
      <wp:author_display_name><![CDATA[Lacey Henschel]]></wp:author_display_name>
      <wp:author_first_name><![CDATA[Lacey]]></wp:author_first_name>
      <wp:author_last_name><![CDATA[Henschel]]></wp:author_last_name>
    </wp:author>
    <wp:category>
      <wp:cat_name><![CDATA[Personal - null]]></wp:cat_name>
      <wp:category_nicename>Personal-null</wp:category_nicename>
      <wp:category_parent />
    </wp:category>
    <item>
      <link>/about</link>
      <title>About Lacey</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="sqs-html-content">
         <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>
         </div>
      </content:encoded>

        <item>
            <title>A blog post title </title>
            <link>/path/to/post</link>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="sqs-html-content">
                <p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Here is some blog content! </p>
            </div>]]></content:encoded>
            <excerpt:encoded />
            <wp:post_name>path/to/post</wp:post_name>
            <wp:post_type>post</wp:post_type>
            <wp:post_id>3</wp:post_id>
            <wp:status>publish</wp:status>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
            <wp:post_date>2023-01-13 19:16:18</wp:post_date>
            <wp:post_date_gmt>2023-01-13 19:16:18</wp:post_date_gmt>
            <category domain="post_tag" nicename="tag-1"><![CDATA[weeknotes]]></category>
            <category domain="post_tag" nicename="tag-2"><![CDATA[art]]></category>
            <dc:creator>redacted@redacted.com</dc:creator>
            <wp:comment_status>closed</wp:comment_status>
        </item>
    </channell>
</rss>

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.

Goals

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.

Now I have this XML copy of my site and we're going to figure out what to do next with it.