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September 23, 2014 by Nina Amir 20 Comments

3 Ways to Convert Blog Content Into a Word Doc

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9914726_sFor those bloggers who would like to book a blog, or repurpose their posts into a book, turning blog content into a word-processing file can pose one of the largest challenges. You likely need a Microsoft Word file, since these are used by designers and to create a variety of ebook formats. Yet, it’s not so easy to get blog content off a blog without manually copying and pasting each post into a Word file.

After much research and some trial and error of my own, here are the three ways I have discovered to convert blog content to into a Word file without the time spent copying and pasting.

DEVONthink Pro

If you are a Mac user, you can do what LifeHacker blogger and author Gina Trapani did. She used a Mac program called DEVONthink Pro, which costs $79. It creates a database of web pages, plain notes and word processing documents out of your blog. You then can organize this data into a book outline. Using this program Trapani was able “to suck all 5,000 of Lifehacker’s blog posts into its database immediately” as she worked on her book. Pretty cool. (I have tried this program for free but found it difficult to navigate; I never managed to get my word processing docs.)

With that in mind, you might be able to find a coder, or computer programmer, to extract your blog posts into a database even if you aren’t a Mac user. It’s amazing what a good coder can do—and for very little money. Try placing a request on oDesk.com or Elance.com and see what you get back.

BlogBooker

BlogBooker.com is a service that produces a Word document for you if you use its PDF + DOCs (beta) service. It supports WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, Livejournal, and Tumblr. This service asks for a donation but has no set fee.

To use the service, first export an XML document from your blog, which is easily done by going to “Tools,” “Export” and then choosing “Posts.” Then click on “Download Export File.” You can choose posts by a particular time period or category prior to exporting the XML file.

Choose your blog type, and indicate the URL of the blog. Then upload your XML file. You also have a few features you can choose for your output.

I have had varied success with this site. Sometimes I get a Word file and sometimes a PDF, which is not so useful (but can be converted to Word in some cases). I’ve gotten other types of files as well. It’s worth a try, though.

BlogBookMaker

Or you can use BlogBookMaker.com. This program requires that you first have your site validated (to prove you own the content), and you can then reliably download posts with photos into a Word file quite easily. It exports by category, and you only have use of the service for one week’s time. It produces a “book” that you can edit in Word. This service costs $250.

Due to high fee, if you use this service I suggest you download as much content as you can in that one week. The files you get are clean and worth the money.

When you have finished extracting all those posts from your blog, you will, indeed, have what looks like the makings of a manuscript. Don’t, however, get too excited yet. You still have work ahead of you. You need to edit, revise, and fill in any content gaps. If you don’t do this, all you have is a bunch of blog posts slapped together into what appears to be a book. It isn’t really a book.

Do you have any other solutions for going blog to word-processing doc? If so, leave me a comment.

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  1. Trevor says

    September 23, 2014 at 2:39 pm

    Dear Nina,

    Interesting article and it seems you get what you pay for.

    I have been working the other way round. Writing my blogs in a single word doc then cutting and pasting them to the blog.

  2. Nina Amir says

    September 23, 2014 at 3:52 pm

    Trevor,
    That’s what I recommend for those blogging books…create in Word or in Scrivener (which will produce a Word doc — with some issues) and then copy and paste into WordPress.

  3. Pir Rokhan says

    July 5, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    What a useful post! Thanks a lot for sharing. Keep it up.

  4. Amy says

    September 15, 2015 at 2:30 pm

    I just used BlogBooker and got all my posts in Word format! Yes!!! That saved me so much time!

  5. Magda Merz says

    April 30, 2016 at 3:00 am

    Helpful suggestions , I learned a lot from the points . Does someone know where my company would be able to get ahold of a fillable IRS 5329 copy to fill out ?

  6. Christian Damian says

    September 29, 2016 at 8:59 am

    Could you tell what the “some issues” are in Word or Scrivener?

  7. Nina Amir says

    October 10, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    I”m not sure what you are referring to…even after reading the post again.

  8. Matthew Moggridge says

    December 29, 2016 at 3:19 am

    I have a blog that’s been going since Sept 09 and I’ve done things the hard way: going through each post (control + A, control + C and then control + V) and transferring to Word. It’s taking ages! And you have to get rid of all the images too. There are sites that turn your blog into a print book, I reckon that’s easiest but to be honest I don’t have the spare cash. Blog2Print is the one I’ve seen.

  9. James Jensen says

    June 29, 2017 at 11:18 pm

    Thank you for providing the above three convenient ways to convert blog directly to Word! I will try them one by one and it really saves me much time for searching a good way for the conversion.

  10. Ushaarvind says

    March 5, 2018 at 2:16 am

    Wonderful blog Nina Amir.. ” 3 ways to convert blog content into a word doc” is very useful information. Am trying to convert my blog content into a word doc. So am looking for related information then i found your blog. It’s really very informative. Thank you for sharing this one.

  11. Shakthi says

    September 20, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    Thank you so much. BlogBooker did it for me.

  12. Dario Greggio says

    June 25, 2020 at 4:48 am

    trying now with blogbooker 🙂 thx.

    I was going to write my own piece of software for that, since there were not many options “working”

  13. Dario Greggio says

    June 25, 2020 at 4:57 am

    nope. without any alert, it only converted 1 year and not quite well. will go my way

  14. Nina Amir says

    June 28, 2020 at 1:09 pm

    Yes, it’s true. If you could come up with a reliable, inexpensive way to turn blog content into a Word Doc, you would be rich!

  15. Nina Amir says

    June 28, 2020 at 1:09 pm

    Let me know if you find a better way… We can update this post or write a new one.

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    April 1, 2021 at 1:06 pm

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  19. livescore says

    April 1, 2021 at 1:06 pm

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    tetapi amat populer dalam Amerika. Memeluk analis dengan sumber olah tubuh, olahraga membelokkan populer di Amerika adalah sepakbola.
    Kecintaan mereka akan sepakbola doang diawnggap lir budaya.

    Membuat menemukan beserrta berakar dalam-dalam dalam hidup mereka.
    Orang-orang yang menonton sepak bola pada TV juga belajar melempar spiral padda halaman final rumah membuat.
    Biasanya membuat bermain sepak bola yang juga
    dikemal laksana sepak bola dekat lapangan bagi istirahat.

    Sekarang muncul pertanyaan, mengapa membuat memiliki amat sangat banyak kecenderungan terhadap permainan?

    Tidak bisa disangkal evidensi bahwa Awam penduduk Amerika lebih memusuhi sepak bola daripada pertndingan bukan seperti bal basket,
    baseball, atau milik. Itulah sebabnya tiket bola kaki sering terjuall habis bersama cepat dan sangat problematis didapat pada saat
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    untuk bertolak cukup cepat dan bulat kuat bikin berdiri dengan melakukannya lagi.
    Bahkan, bersama kekasaaran atraksi, mayoritas kolntingen memainkan permainan per tunggal dan bonceng sisa yaujm untuk betah dari
    keletihan. Sementara, umpama kita memeriksa bisbol, kontinmgen memainkan beberapa pertandingan seminggu, kadang-kadang dua
    pertandingan di hari yang sama.

    Dan reputasinya bikin ketangguhan, sepaakbola juga dikenal sebagai maupun dianggap lir olahraga “jantan”
    meskipun bakal kenyataannya perempuan juga beermain untuk
    beraneka negara. Idiosinkritis seperti dorongan, kekuatan, durabilitas, keuletan, dianggap jantan, bersama ini meruupakan kualitaas nang diperlukan berisi sepakbola.
    Ini sangat bersengat, karena dimensi tim. Seorang ria lainn bisa beraksi sepakbola, doang tidak seorang pun bole
    memenangkan kompetisi sepakbola. Dikau membutuhkan ssemua tim.
    Anda membutuhkan pemain untuk dupak bola dalam direktur selatan melewati kontestan lain, kontestan untuk melumpuhkan lwan dengan menangani, beserrta orang-orang kerjakan melewati
    bola dan berlari secepat mungkin iseng-iseng menghindari anggota tim lainnya.

    Jika Engkau mencetak angka, Anda merayakannya bersama tim,
    karena mewreka mewujudkannya, beserta para penggemar merayakan kemakbulan tim menazamkan.

    Sepak bola cuma memiliki daya pikat dasar. Pernahkah Anda memantau pertandingan sepak bola,
    di mana huan maupun salkju dimulai? Apa nanng
    telah berlanjur?Permainan berlanjut! Selain berurusan dengan berlalunya lawan membuat,
    yang sekarang harus dilakukan dengan dewasa? Ini becus menjadi anggota ketegangan berisi add-on game!

    Jika Engkau seorang penggemar sepak bola, Dikau mungkin sudah lalu tahu selhruh ini.
    Baik tidak, cerita tontonlah game untuk cakup kegembiraan.

  20. Rashid Hussain says

    May 29, 2021 at 2:49 am

    You can easily convert one or more PDFs to different file formats, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

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