How can I convert (move) individual webpages into QA system?

Question

What I have is just the 1000s of html pages which consist of question and answers. Now how can I move then into QA system. Example: What I actually have is (sample only):-

question2answer.org folder > qa folder / 52327 folder / best-users-per-month.html page (contains question and answers) for url like http://www.question2answer.org/qa/52327/best-users-per-month. This the structure of my site. They are just folders and pages. how can i move them into q/a system.

This is how the files present on my Pc.

Answer 1

You can write a small PHP parser for this. It won't be difficult to construct post format from a HTML dump provided it is from a Q2A site. Otherwise also its not difficult- you have to match all items like category, tags, date, user etc. I had once done this to restore my site content from cached HTML pages.

Comments

That won't work. Even if you strip HTML, in database content has a fixed size. So, it wont affect. To reduce size you can do alternate ways.

Duplicates - How is it coming even? I suppose the HTML files were unique. To eliminate I guess you have to modify the code and check for duplicates, or remove duplicate content from the SQL file - in the later case you might have some missing "IDs" in post table.

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Some HTML files has copies and I'm in a shared hosting. Will running those will cause any problem?

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Guess you can start a new Q2A site just for your doubts :O

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It doesn't cause any problem, but just the CPU limit given by the hosting provider increases. So if it reaches 100% then I have to wait for sometime I think.

I have dropped a message in your profile and do u think u can answer that.

Answer 2

I can get the description inside the command prompt.

What I did?

Create a Example.rb file on my PC. Entered the below code inside the file and saved it.

require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'

url = "C:/Users/Manikandan/websites/index.html"

data = Nokogiri::HTML(open(url))

puts data.at_css("#summaryDescription").text.strip

puts data.css(".postContent").text.strip

data.at_css('h1.title').text.strip

When running the file on Command prompt, I can get the details

But I get all the answers as a single paragraph. I'm not sure what I'm doing, please help me.