Import Wordpress comments through Disqus

Hi,

I try to migrate my WordPress comments to Discourse. I’ve read a lot about that, and I saw I need to transit my comments through Disqus to do that, because imports script don’t work with WP at this time.

I’ve installed Discourse with DigitalOcean and the 30 min install.

Well, inspired by this tutorial, I’ve tried to import my xml from Disqus. First :

$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec thor disqus:import --file=irz.xml --post-as=disqus --dry-run
Could not find command "disqus:import".

Ok I understand, this don’t work anymore.

$ cd /var/www/discourse
$ RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec thor typepad:import --file=irz.xml --post-as=art
Importing 0 entries

Well, this don’t work too. So close.

I’ve found another interesting and recent file (update a month ago), disqus.rb. Reading the file, I found how to call it :

$ cd /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts
$ RAILS_ENV=production ruby disqus.rb --file=irz.xml --post-as=art --dry_run
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require': cannot load such file -- nokogiri (LoadError)
	from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'
	from disqus.rb:1:in `<main>'

Perhaps I missed something…

I don’t know if I need to install nogokiri gem ?

$ gem install nokogiri
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions for the /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.0.0 directory.

If you have another way to do that, I’ll take it.

Enter Docker as “root” and you’ll have the permissions you need.

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Yep, thank you @omfg.

This command working :

$ cd /var/www/discourse/script/import_scripts
$ RAILS_ENV=production ruby disqus.rb --file=irz.xml --post_as=art

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