Question

If I entrust my Twiki with some reports is there an easy way for me to actually keep or obtain a copy of the files either as text twiki-text or or exported as html. I'd like to be able to do this periodically and not have to go through each page individually to export it.

Thanks, David Mallon.

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-- DavidMallon - 30 Aug 2005

Answer

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You can do that with add-ons, see GenPDFAddOn, PublishAddOn.

You can also use wget in a cronjob to grab a set of TWiki topics in HTML form. Apply a different skin if needed, e.g. by appending ?skin=print or ?skin=plain to the URL.

-- PeterThoeny - 30 Aug 2005

along the lines of wget, you could setup rsync.

you might also be able to leverage CPAN:WWW::Mechanize::TWiki

another skin option to get the raw topic text (but not metadata) is ?skin=text&raw=on&contenttype=text/plain, e.g., https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/HowToExportTwikiFiles?skin=text&raw=on&contenttype=text/plain

another variation on that is ?skin=text&raw=debug&contenttype=text/plain, e.g., https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/HowToExportTwikiFiles?skin=text&raw=debug&contenttype=text/plain which gets you the raw text including meta data.

-- WillNorris - 30 Aug 2005
-- PeterThoeny - 30 Aug 2005

yet another possibility is GetAWebAddOn

-- WillNorris - 04 Sep 2005

I would like to include TWiki pages in offline websites using php. This is easy to do using the above commands to grap just the raw content of a topic and the topic is written using HTML syntax. However, if the topic is written using wiki syntax then I need to substitute the to html syntax. Can you suggest an easy method to do this?

-- PeterJones - 31 Aug 2005

Append ?skin=text, e.g., https://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/HowToExportTwikiFiles?skin=text

-- PeterThoeny - 31 Aug 2005