Hello all! Turns out moodle (university course-materials platform) exports json. Hooray! (Probably other courseware can do the same.) What I know about json, however, is limited to what I’ve learned through TW tinkering. Small nuisance: the json that moodle exports needs to be massaged in 2 ways: (…

Yes just get in touch when you have the opportunity. I think we can come up with a custom deserializer, which would basically mean you can drag and drop in a custom dropzone to import without extra steps needed.

Tones and Saq (and anyone else following the moodle-json-export to tiddlywiki-import challenge), Here’s a sample 2-record json exported from moodle, showing the many unquoted numeric fields, and the extra brackets at beginning and end. The subject field is the one that I would normally import as ti…

What would you want to set the type field to? Default? Markdown?

Also, do we know what timezone the created and modified dates are in?

Saq, Default type is fine; times are GMT-5.

OK I think I have something close to usable. Github however is currently down so I cannot share until they resolve their issues. Will upload in the morning. As is often the case, the bulk of the time spent on this went into chasing what might be a core bug in timezone handling in the JavaScript met…

Let me know if this seems like a good workflow, and if so what is missing. There may well be bugs, minimal testing performed: https://moodle-import.tiddlyhost.com/

Saq, this import flow works well, at least on quick testing. Thanks so much! The dates come through well, so long as I use the “human-readable” version on export. I forgot to ask that userfullname be mapped onto modifier field, but I can tweak that as needed. I do think it’s likely that others may…

@Springer working on this also put me in mind of a configurable JSON import where the user can specify the field mapping. However, for that to be truly useful the core import mechanism needs to be rewritten so that once the import tiddler has been created, it is possible to change how the data bein…

@saqimtiaz there is a sophisticated input form process in JSON Mangler already. I have used it a lot for CSV but I understood it translates JSON as well (not proven). Just in case it helps.

Json from moodle, 2 questions/requests about non-ideal json files

Scott_Sauyet May 15, 2026, 1:26pm 25

I’ve gone ahead and done this. You can see the result at:

/ping @Springer