Just to add that the .tid file format really is as simple as it looks, with the constraints implied by that simplicity:
* Field names cannot contain colons * Field values (apart from the "text" field) cannot contain newlines The core works around these limitations by saving tiddlers in JSON format if they don't meet the criteria for .tid files. Best wishes Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston [email protected] https://jermolene.com > On 16 Jun 2021, at 13:31, Soren Bjornstad <[email protected]> wrote: > To be clear since it sounds like you might be trying to create them from > scratch without any reference to look off, you probably want to include at > least the fields created, modified, tags, title, and type. Type is > text/vnd.tiddlywiki for standard wikitext, and created/modified are > YYYYMMDDHHMMSSXXX timestamps (normalized to UTC). > >> On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 7:29:11 AM UTC-5 Soren Bjornstad wrote: >> David, >> >> I parse them all the time and there's not really much to it – most of the >> fields are at the top separated from their values by a colon and a space, >> and then after the first blank line is the text field. >> >> I imagine this may change slightly in the upcoming version 5.2 since field >> names are going to be allowed to contain more characters than they currently >> do (not sure what would happen if you put a colon in a field name in 5.2, >> for instance). >> >>> On Wednesday, June 16, 2021 at 3:12:56 AM UTC-5 David Shaw wrote: >>> Is the format of a .tid file available anywhere? >>> >>> I ask because I am using Python to pull information from the Web, which I >>> then want to get into a Tiddlywiki and, for reasons that are far too long, >>> complicated and boring to go into here, I am having to do all this on an >>> Android device and can't get JSON import to work in Tiddloid. >>> >>> Many thanks, >>> >>> David Shaw > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c0a69b7a-3d77-479e-af4a-98722feb3d85n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/AB9CA16B-44BC-4E58-9C91-231CEFE81359%40gmail.com.
