I was once a Bloglovin’ as mentioned in this Bloglovin Guide & FAQ post. I used it to follow a range of blogs, which I’d organised into many different groups or categories.
However, I’ve since switched to using Feedly.
Today I’ll be explaining a really simple hack to export a specific group of blogs I follow from Bloglovin’ and import it into the Feedly reader.
- Set up your groups on Bloglovin – Put the specific blog subscriptions you want to export into one group and call it something you’ll remember later on.
- Export – download an opml file here which will give you an xml file of your blog subscriptions.
- Open the file – Open the file in a text editor such as TextEdit, TextWrangler, NotePad, TextPad, etc. Most computers have a text editor program already installed so have a look for it. Once opened, you should see something like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <opml version="1.0"> <head> <title>Bloglovin Subscriptions</title> </head> <body> <outline text="GROUP 1"> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> </outline> <outline text="GROUP 2"> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> </outline> <outline text="GROUP 3 - THAT WE WANT TO KEEP "> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> </outline> </body> </opml> - Edit the file – Find the group that you want to keep and import into a different reader (group 3 in my example). You are going to delete all the other groups apart from it. You also need to keep the opening and closing part of the file which is shown in pink below. Keeping the pink writing, deleting the grey…
Once you’ve removed the other groups, your file should look something like this<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <opml version="1.0"> <head> <title>Bloglovin Subscriptions</title> </head> <body> <outline text="GROUP 1"> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> </outline> <outline text="GROUP 2"> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> </outline> <outline text="GROUP 3 - THAT WE WANT TO KEEP "> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> </outline> </body> </opml><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <opml version="1.0"> <head> <title>Bloglovin Subscriptions</title> </head> <body> <outline text="GROUP 3 - THAT WE WANT TO KEEP "> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> <outline text="BLOG NAME" type="rss" xmlUrl="BLOG FEED URL" htmlUrl="BLOG URL" /> </outline> </body> </opml> - Import – Save the file using the same name and filetype. You can now import that to another reader such as Feedly, Pulse or a different Bloglovin account. Find a list of alternatives to Google Reader here.
So that’s how you export a certain category/group on Bloglovin in order to move it elsewhere.