Quick and dirty script to export django.contrib.comments as an IntenseDebate Export file to import it in Disqus.

intense.py

from django.utils.html import escape
from django.contrib.comments.models import Comment
from django.utils.encoding import smart_str

post = u''
for i in Comment.objects.order_by('submit_date'):
    if not i.content_object:
        continue
        
    post += u"""
      <blogpost>
        <url>%(url)s</url>
        <title>%(title)s</title>
        <guid>%(slug)s</guid>
        <comments>
          <comment>
            <isAnon>1</isAnon>
            <name>%(name)s</name>
            <email>%(email)s</email>
            <url>%(curl)s</url>
            <ip>%(ip)s</ip>
            <text>%(text)s</text>
            <date>%(date)s</date>
            <gmt>%(date)s</gmt>
            <score>1</score>
          </comment>
        </comments>
      </blogpost>
    """ % {
        'url': 'http://www.mahner.org'+i.content_object.get_absolute_url(),
        'title': i.content_object.title,
        'slug': i.content_object.slug,
        'name': i.name or u'Anonymous',
        'email': i.email or u'[email protected]',
        'curl': i.url,
        'text': escape(smart_str(i.comment)),
        'ip': i.ip_address,
        'date': i.submit_date.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'),    
    }

post = u'<output>%s</output>' % post
post = post.encode('UTF-8')

f = open('test.txt', "w")
f.write(post)
f.close()