https://github.com/ryanfb/backpack-export-xslt
Stylesheets for converting your Backpack export into a complete usable backup
https://github.com/ryanfb/backpack-export-xslt
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Stylesheets for converting your Backpack export into a complete usable backup
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ryanfb/backpack-export-xslt
- Owner: ryanfb
- Created: 2014-06-05T20:18:45.000Z (about 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2014-06-27T16:17:39.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-21T23:31:24.739Z (over 1 year ago)
- Language: JavaScript
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- Size: 402 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
Backpack Export XSLT
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This repository contains stylesheets for converting your 37signals/Basecamp [Backpack export XML](https://help.basecamp.com/backpack/questions/255-can-i-export-my-data-out-of-backpack) into usable, complete, static local backups. This is essential for getting a "full" backup of your account without having to go through and click+download every image, attachment, asset, page, etc. manually. As Backpack is "[retired](https://basecamp.com/backpack-retired)", you may want to do this on a regular basis if you plan to continue using Backpack. Alternately, you may just want to get your data out and retire your account.
USAGE
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There are two stylesheets included:
* `export2urls.xsl`: for turning your export XML into a list of image, thumbnail, and asset URLs to be downloaded
* `export2html.xsl`: for turning your export XML into static local HTML (references downloaded images/assets)
First, you'll want to generate the list of URLs of data not included in the export XML that you need to download:
saxon -xsl:export2urls.xsl -s:export.xml -o:urls.txt
Now you can download the URLs with a simple bash script, e.g.:
while read url; do
wget -x --load-cookies=cookies.txt "$url"
done < urls.txt
Where cookies.txt is a cookies file you've exported from your browser after logging into Backpack.
Now that you have all your images and attachments downloaded, generate a static HTML page from your export:
saxon -xsl:export2html.xsl -s:export.xml -o:index.html
This will generate an index.html and an HTML file for each page.
TODO
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* Output messages/comments against list items & notes in the HTML
LICENSE
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Copyright (c) 2014 Ryan Baumann
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