etherdump
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Tool to publish [etherpad ](http://etherpad.org/ ) pages to files.
Requirements
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python-dateutil, html5lib
Installation
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pip install python-dateutil html5lib
python setup.py install
Example
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mkdir mydump
cd myddump
etherdump init
The program then interactively asks some questions:
Please type the URL of the etherpad:
http://automatist.local:9001/
The APIKEY is the contents of the file APIKEY.txt in the etherpad folder
Please paste the APIKEY:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The settings are placed in a file called .etherdump/settings.json and are used (by default) by future commands.
subcommands
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* init
* pull
* list
* listauthors
* gettext
* gethtml
* creatediffhtml
* revisionscount
To get help on a subcommand:
etherdump revisionscount --help
file sync
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epfs?
pad to file
etherdump init http://localhost:9001/ --path foo
etherdump status
compare state of files to etherpad & report
etherdump pull < padid / path >
etherdump sync
push / pull file contents to pad
why
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Etherdump is useful as a means of dumping the contents of etherpad to files, as a way of opening up the contents of the service to other services / methods / uses / tools / situations. (Files also of course allow for archival tools / methods)
