In October we began offering self-service exports for Pika. This was a big day for Pika as it allowed anyone to get a CSV, JSON, or XML export for themselves, every day of the week if they so pleased. At launch, though, we knew this wasn’t enough.
CSV, JSON, and XML exports are good for keeping a light archive of your writing, and at least one of these export types should be importable to other blogging services. This gives anyone using Pika the flexibility to move to another service if they find a better fit for their blogging life in the future. However, if a customer wants to have a more complete archive of their Pika blog for their records, they generally would prefer something that is more browsable and encapsulates not only their writing,…
In October we began offering self-service exports for Pika. This was a big day for Pika as it allowed anyone to get a CSV, JSON, or XML export for themselves, every day of the week if they so pleased. At launch, though, we knew this wasn’t enough.
CSV, JSON, and XML exports are good for keeping a light archive of your writing, and at least one of these export types should be importable to other blogging services. This gives anyone using Pika the flexibility to move to another service if they find a better fit for their blogging life in the future. However, if a customer wants to have a more complete archive of their Pika blog for their records, they generally would prefer something that is more browsable and encapsulates not only their writing, but also any images they’ve shared on Pika.
This is where Markdown and HTML exports come in. Each of these export formats also include all of the images you’ve published with your posts and pages on Pika. The Markdown export has a folder for your posts, a folder for your pages, and a folder for your images. The HTML export is a browsable export. You can click through all of your posts in a browser, and see a list of your pages as well for viewing. Note that the HTML export isn’t a direct stylistic copy of your Pika site, but rather a very simplified set of HTML files.
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If the Markdown or HTML export is something you’ve been waiting for, give it a try and let us know if you run into any problems. We do ask that you please not fire off both Markdown and HTML exports in your account the instant you see this post. These sorts of exports are fairly intense. A lot of engineering has went into implementing the exports in a way that is safe for our backend systems, but we’d still rather avoid unnecessarily load testing things if we can. Thank you!
Due to the size and time to process these exports, we have limited Markdown and HTML exports to be runnable once per 7 days. Just like all prior exports, these exports will be retained on our servers for at least 14 days. To create an export, scroll down to the bottom of your** Settings** page and you’ll see a link to Export your posts and pages.
And for those of you considering Pika for your blog, we can handle importing from those other software options as well! That’s still a manual process, so drop us a line if you’d like to make the move.
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