very good idea! Anki is written in python - and has a plugin architecture, a bridge to tiddlywiki would be a great thing. cheers BJ
On Friday, February 13, 2015 at 6:50:22 AM UTC-6, Neil Griffin wrote: > > A little over a year ago, I discovered both TW and Python and since then, > it seems that the solution to pretty much every problem has been to use one > or other of them. It was only a matter of time before I felt the need to > get them working together. > > As a result, I have written a little Python module that allows me to > perform the essential functions of reading, searching and writing to > tiddlers in the store area of a local single-file TiddlyWiki. I thought > this might be of interest to some others here, so I have put it up on > Github for people to play with if they like. There appears to have been > something similar for TW Classic, but I've not seen anything for TW5. > https://github.com/ng110/TiddlPy ('TiddlyPy' was already used by the TWC > Python library). > > > *PLEASE NOTE*: Because this has the ability to edit a TW file and > overwrite the original, there may well be unforeseen side-effects that I > have not yet discovered, so *BACK UP* any valuable data before using. > There are quite likely to be bugs, so I make no claims for the reliability. > > > So far, it has worked well for me in my first application, which is as a > news reader. I am scraping news pages from the website of my local > newspaper (which is horribly overloaded with intrusive adverts) and > dropping them into a dedicated TiddlyWiki. A scheduled task runs my Python > script to keep it regularly updated. As well as avoiding the ads, it also > allows me to browse the news offline. > > The ability to automate moving data in and out of a local TW file opens up > all sorts of possibilities. Here are some ideas: > > - Extracting information from websites for > formatting/viewing/searching etc in TW > - Tools for importing various data formats into TW > - Exchanging information between different TW files > - Communicating between different computers (using a file synchronised > with Dropbox etc). This could allow you to use TW on one device as a > control panel that sends instructions / reads data from one or more remote > machines that might be controlling an experiments / a home security > system, > etc. > - New WikiText markup that provides instructions to an external Python > script. For example, it could instruct the script to download an image or > other file from a specified URL, drop the file into a local directory and > then replace the markup with a link to the saved file. Possible security > issues there, but you'd have to hack both my TW and my Python code. > > ... of course, any of this could be done with the language of your choice, > if you are not a Python fan. > > I would be interested to know if anyone finds this useful, or if they can > spot any potential problems in writing to a TW file in this way. Obviously > there is the risk of lost changes if Python tries to write at the same time > as someone is editing, though this already exists as a problem when using a > file synchronised between different computers. > > Enjoy, > > Neil. > > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
