etherdump 1.0.1

a set of utilities for using the etherpad API to make static dumps of pads

etherdump

Tool to help manage periodic publishing of etherpads to static files, preserving metadata. Uses the etherpad API (and so it requires having the APIKEY.txt contents of an etherpad installation).

Installation

pip install etherdump

Usage

mkdir mydump
cd myddump
etherdump init

The settings are placed in a file called etherpad_info.json (by default) and can be specified with the --padinfo option on subcommands. Make sure that this file is not exposed publically, as it contains the APIKEY to the etherpad server.

etherdump list

You should see a list of pads.

Cookbook

Using etherdump to maintain a static HTML archive of pads

# Mis à jour les pads changé
etherdump pull --padinfo ..path/to/etherpad_info.json

# Récrée les pages index...
etherdump index --padinfo ../path/to/etherpad_info.json p/*.meta.json > index.html

Using etherdump to migrate from one etherpad instance to another

mkdir instance1 && cd instance1
etherdump init
etherdump pull

(cd ..)
mkdir instance2 && cd instance2
etherdump init
etherdump pushhtml --basepath ../instance1 ../instance1/p/*.meta.json

NB: sethtml/pushhtml seems to only work on the server itself, ie using API url such as localhost:9001.

NB: This command indescriminantly clobbers pads in instance2 with the HTML of the dumped versions from instance1.

This technique can be used to "reset" the database of a pad by recreating pads (without their history or editor info/colors) in a fresh database.

Magicwords

Following the suggestions of sister project/friendly fork etherpump, the magic word mechanism has been expanded (from the inital single hard coded __NOPUBLISH__ value) to and generalized to allow a the use of text markers in the source text to control various options, including options for use in preprocessing and translation of markdown using pandoc.