A script to upload Tistory backup XML file to Evernote. Developer token from Evernote required.

UploadTistoryToEvernote.py

import re
import sys
from lxml import etree
from StringIO import StringIO
from evernote.edam.type import ttypes
from evernote.api.client import EvernoteClient

parser = etree.HTMLParser()

def convert_to_edml(text):
    tree = etree.parse(StringIO(text), parser)
    content = etree.tostring(tree.find('body'), encoding='unicode', method="xml")
    content = re.sub(r'(\<\/?)body(\>)', r'\1en-note\2', content)

    return content

def make_note(noteStore, noteTitle, noteBody, created, category, parentNotebookGuid):
    noteBody = convert_to_edml(noteBody)
    
    nBody = u"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"
    nBody += u"<!DOCTYPE en-note SYSTEM \"http://xml.evernote.com/pub/enml2.dtd\">"
    nBody += noteBody
 
    ourNote = ttypes.Note()
    ourNote.title = noteTitle.encode('utf-8')
    ourNote.content = nBody.encode('utf-8')
    ourNote.created = int(created) * 1000
    ourNote.updated = ourNote.created
    ourNote.tagNames = ['tistory']
    if category:
        ourNote.tagNames.append(category.encode('utf-8'))

    if parentNotebookGuid:
        ourNote.notebookGuid = parentNotebookGuid

    note = noteStore.createNote(ourNote)

    return note


dev_token = "developer token"
notebook_name = 'notebook_name'

def upload_blog(tistory_blog_xml):
    client = EvernoteClient(token=dev_token, sandbox=False)
    noteStore = client.get_note_store()
    notebooks = noteStore.listNotebooks()
    parent_notebook = [notebook for notebook in notebooks if notebook.name == notebook_name][0]

    post_id = 0

    try:
        for post in blog_xml.findall('post'):
            post_id = post.find('id').text
            title = post.find('title').text
            content = post.find('content').text
            created = post.find('published').text
            category = post.find('category').text

            make_note(noteStore, title, content, created, category, parent_notebook.guid)
            sys.stdout.write('.')
    except:
        print("Error: " + str(post_id))
        raise
    else:
        print("Success!")