Exports previously-starred articles from Google Reader to Evernote
Executive Summary: Three methods are given below - unless you like crappy imported notes, you should use either the export2enex.py or the export2HTMLFiles methods below. export_gr2evernote.py uses Evernote's e-mail submission feature, which mangles any HTML in the note, rendering it a pile of markup gibberish.
Run with -h to see available options.
If you use Google Reader (and probably even if you don't), you probably know that Google has announced they're shutting it down on July 1. I've got hundreds of starred articles in Reader, and I'd like to get them into a service that I have more control over. Since Evernote stores your data locally on your devices, I've found it's a good service for keeping my data in the cloud without running the risk of losing it if/when Evernote goes away.
export2HTMLFiles takes the exported JSON file produced by Google's Takeout (namely, 'starred.json') and dumps each starred entry in a numbered html file, names as per title of the entry. The html files can then be simply dropped into the Evernote desktop client. This approach also does a good job of preserving the formatting of the note, and it tends to be more consistent (more than 3000 entries from more than 200 blogs have been imported using this method under OSX, where the other methods failed). Since it's all local, there are no limits to how many notes you can import in one go. Usage: export2HTMLFiles.py
export2enex takes the exported JSON file produced by Google's Takeout (namely, 'starred.json') and dumps it into Evernote, using Evernote's export file format (.enex). Unlike export_gr2evernote.py, this approach does a pretty good job of preserving the formatting of the note. Also, since it's all local, there are no limits to how many notes you can import in one go. Unless you have a compelling reason to use the e-mail submission script (like, say, you want ugly notes with a bunch of extraneous markup), you should use this script to export your Reader JSON into Evernote enex format. Once you have it in enex format, you can import it into Evernote using the desktop client. Usage: export2enex.py [options] > filename.enex
export_gr2evernote.py takes the exported JSON file produced by Google's Takeout (namely, 'starred.json') and dumps it into Evernote, using Evernote's e-mail note submission feature. It doesn't do any formatting of what it sends to Evernote, so it will most likely look pretty ugly in Evernote. I looked into the possibility of using ENML (Evernote's markup language), but apparently it's not possible to submit notes via email that are encoded with ENML--the ENML is escaped so that it just appears as normal text in the note in Evernote. There is an ENML editor (http://enml-editor.ping13.net/) that allows you to edit your notes, but that's a manual process that I've found to be quite tedious due to all the special characters that are escaped (e.g., " ). I think it might be possible to do some processing of the raw JSON to make it easier to use this editor as a final, finishing step, but I haven't investigated that too closely yet.
Note that if you have a lot of starred articles, you can blow through your daily e-mail upload limit quite easily! As of this writing, free accounts have a limit of 50 e-mails per day; premium accounts have a limit of 250. To accommodate that limitation, the script keeps track of where it left off each day (by writing a python pickle file in the current working directory) so that when you run it on subsequent days, you can simply use the --continue option to continue your article dump.