etherdump

Tool to publish etherpad pages to files.

Requirements

None beyond standard lib.

Installation

python setup.py install

Padinfo file

All pad-specific settings are loaded from a file called "padinfo.json" -- by default etherdump looks in the current directory. Make a copy of padinfo.sample.json to start one. Make sure to check that the URL and port settings are correct, and to paste the correct apikey here!

cp padinfo.sample.json ~/yourfolder/padinfo.json
nano padinfo.json

And then for instance:

etherdump list

subcommands

• sync
• list
• listauthors
• gettext
• gethtml
• creatediffhtml
• revisionscount

To get help on a subcommand:

etherdump revisionscount --help

file sync

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

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)