nevernervous/escape_from_disqus

How to take your Disqus export XML and turn it into static XML and JSON to pull back into your site

A python script to process your exported Disqus XML dump, and make JSON/HTML snippets

Why did I do this? Well I setup my Disqus incorrectly many years ago, and article titles were a bit non-standard. I only worked that a month ago. I tried to seek help through the Disqus support system (a forum), but didn't get what I was looking for. See here and here. There was a help document elsewhere but it was out of date.

So bye bye Disqus. Hello Twitter for comments (that I will try to work out how to bring back to the page later)

And the Python script? Run it in Python3 - no args - it's going to create a disqusoutput/ folder.

Oh, and:

sudo pip3 install python-dateutil
sudo pip3 install sh