Export all tiddlers of a local tiddlywiki file to separate textfiles with python

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#1

Hi,

i love tiddlywiki as a single file application for years, but now i had the task to migrate the content to a web based wiki. there are a lot of guides old and new, but nothing really worked for me. my task was to export each tiddler into a .txt file (can be changed to .md as well, but you have to tweak the content yourself to the official markdown language)

so i decided to make my own barebone solution to extract the tiddlers with python. you can check it out in my github project: GitHub - IE404/tiddler-export: exports each tiddler of a local tiddlywiki file to a textfile

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#2

There are few similar tools, albeit some of them are years old. I researched the ecosystem of Python tools for TiddlyWiki a couple of months ago and this is what I managed to comb into my bookmarks:

Did you write your tool to solve a problem with a strictly defined final requirement, or are you planning to extend it in the future, like adding support for importing tiddlers into a single file wiki, adding support for import/export operations on encrypted single file wikis etc?

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#3

no planning to extend in the future. just a quick & dirty solution with beautifulsoup (the other libaries have a different technical approach)