From 59e91bc8931a386974a3817e9849aad1ca7fc186 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolas=20L=C5=93uillet?= Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 14:14:51 +0200 Subject: add docs --- docs/en/User/import_export.rst | 107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 107 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/en/User/import_export.rst (limited to 'docs/en/User/import_export.rst') diff --git a/docs/en/User/import_export.rst b/docs/en/User/import_export.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8cd18bf2 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/en/User/import_export.rst @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +.. _`Import / Export`: + +Import and export data +====================== + +Import +------ + +To import data in wallabag, go to the page **Configuration**. + +Caution +~~~~~~~ + +Data import can be a **demanding process** for your server. Hence, it is +done in two steps: + +- Insertion of the URL in the wallabag database +- in the second step, the retrieval, for each article, of its full + content. + +These two steps cannot be done concurrently, because it let us the +possibility to import thousands of links, but today, wallabag does not +have sufficient technical capabilities to do this task automatically. + +From Pocket +~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Export your data from Pocket +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +From your Pocket account, go to the options. TODO + +Import your Pocket data +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +From the configuration page of wallabag, section **Import**, select the +file ``ril_export.html`` generated by Pocket, then click on **Import**. +Wallabag only insert these links in the database. Now, you have to get +the content of each article. + +For this, click on ``Click to finish import``: wallabag will fetch the +content of 10 articles at a time. + +TODO + +TODO new ticket: why when a click is done, this does not load in a loop? +I believe this was doing this ping @mariroz + +From Instapaper +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Export your data from Instapaper +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +TODO + +Import your Instapaper data +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +TODO + +From Readability +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Export your data from Readability +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +TODO + +Import your Readability data +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +TODO + +From wallabag +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Since you can export your data from wallabag (see below), it is of +course possible to re-import them. + +In the import form, select your wallabag-exported file (format JSON). +Start the import, et voilĂ . + +Unlike the above imports, this process is shorter because all the data +(title and content of the articles) are already included in the file. +Hence wallabag does not have to access each URL. However, the import +file is necessarily bigger. + +From a HTML or JSON file +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +TODO + +Export +------ + +It is possible to export your data from the page **Configuration** of +wallabag. Several reasons to do this: + +- re-install of wallabag +- leave the Framabag service to install your own wallabag +- a user with an account on a multi-user wallabag want to have his/her + own wallabag installation +- ... + +This will lead you to download a file `at the JSON +format `__. As detailed above, you can import this file in wallabag. -- cgit v1.2.3