Typepad has announced that it’s shutting down at the end of September.
Anyone had any luck migrating directly from Typepad to Ghost? I know there’s probably a path via WordPress, but I wonder if anyone has done it directly?
As far as I’m aware its export format is just a variation on the old Movable Type format.
I have finished a migration for a customer yesterday. We did it through Wordpress. That was a lot less headache than writing a custom migration path.
The big issue were media files, since they are hard coded to the Typepad URL everywhere. I ended up using the migrate tool from Ghost, and then ran a script that checked for any dead links. I have then updated these accordingly.
Doable, but lots of manual steps involved, still 
Interesting. I might have a customer for you, then. I’ll drop her a line, and then email you directly. Thanks!