teuxdeux-migrater.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'rubygems'
require 'hpricot'

begin
    # Reads in source created by viewing source on teuxdeux.com and saving it
    # Use Firefox, as the Chrome view source mucks up the source
    file = File.new('list.html', 'r');

    # Converts the HTML into an object
    html = Hpricot(file)

    # Pulls out the undone list items
    list_items = (html/'li[@class="todo_item"]');

    list_items.each do |list_item|
        # This pulls the todo list item
        todo_item = (list_item/'p.teuxdeux').innerHTML

        # The following is code to generate queries to import teuxdeux.com data
        # to the wonderous http://todoapp.plan8home.com but could be altered to
        # support a migration to any other service

        # Creates a time object to set the created value
        time = Time.new

        # Swap me out with your user ID
        user_id = '%UID%'

        # Displays the SQL to migrate the record
        puts 'INSERT INTO todoapp.todos (user_id, name, eventually, created) VALUES ("' + user_id + '", "' + todo_item + '", 1, "' + time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") + '");'
    end

rescue Exception => e
    print e, "\n"
end