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https://github.com/tiddlyweb/twikifier

A node.js based wikifier for TiddlyWiki text.
https://github.com/tiddlyweb/twikifier

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# What



This is a node.js-based wikifier for TiddlyWiki formatted wikitext.



Rather than creating new code this code simply assembles the required

parts from the TiddlyWiki

[core code repository](http://svn.tiddlywiki.org/Trunk/core/js/) along

with the necessary bits of additional JavaScript. This means that as

the TiddlyWiki core changes this code automatically keeps up to date.



By using jsdom and htmlparser with node, it is possible to simulate the

browser environment that the wikifier would normally run in, and create

some HTML output.



# How



(The below is for OS X but should transliterate to other environments.

It has also been tested on Ubuntu 12.04)



Install node.js and its package manager npm. If you are using brew that

goes like this:



    brew install node npm



Once you have npm, install grunt with:



    npm install -g grunt-cli



Then install the project dependencies:



    npm install



In the repo directory run:



    grunt



This will get all the necessary TiddlyWiki code and concatenate it into

`dist/twikifier.js`. The grunt test task is run after this and runs all

the files in the `test/files` directory against twikifier via

`test/twikify/js`.



The task also creates a distributable node application in `bin/server.js`.



### Building For Different Installations



Running `grunt` by default will build twikifier for TiddlySpace.



To build for other installation types

(e.g. [tank](https://github.com/cdent/tank)) run the following:



    grunt --installation=tank



This builds a customised version of twikifier that will wikify text

according to the rules of the given installation.



To create a custom build, add function overrides to `src/twikifer/functions`,

naming the files after the installation.  Then run:



    grunt --installation=



## Testing



From the test directory, you can try your own wikitext by piping data

into twikify on STDIN:



    node twikify.js --collection= \

        < /tmp/mysampledata.txt



or by giving the names of multiple files on the command line:



    node twikify.js --collection= \

        /tmp/mysampledata.txt /tmp/someotherdata.txt



`` should be replaced with the url of a

collection of tiddlers, in JSON, as found in TiddlyWeb. Things like:



    http://cdent-test7.tiddlyspace.com/bags/cdent-test7_public/tiddlers

    http://cdent-test7.tiddlyspace.com/recipes/cdent-test7_public/tiddlers



As the tool develops there will be other interfaces.



# Testing the NPM Package Works



From the repo directory run:



    npm pack



This will create a zipped tarball.  Install this tarball as follows:



    npm install -g twikifier-x.y.z.tgz



If all is well, `twikifier` will be available in your path. Run this to

check twikifier works.



# Releasing the NPM Package



Run:



    grunt release



See [this link](https://npmjs.org/package/grunt-release#readme) for how

this works.



# Use with TiddlyWeb and Tiddlyspace



Install the TiddlyWeb plugin:



    pip install -U tiddlywebplugins.twikified



Add the following to tiddlywebconfig.py:



    'wikitext.default_renderer': 'tiddlywebplugins.twikified'



Install this package via NPM then run the twikifier server:



    npm install -g twikifier

    twikifier /tmp/wst.sock



Then start TiddlyWeb/Tiddlyspace



If you have connection problems after a restart, remove `/tmp/wst.sock`

and try again.



To permantly run twikifier, see the next section.



## Start-up Script



To have twikifier automatically run on start-up and to give more control

over starting and stopping it:



Copy the file `scripts/twikifier` to `/etc/init.d/`



Test it can start and stop:



        sudo /etc/init.d/twikifier start

        sudo /etc/init.d/twikifier stop

        sudo /etc/init.d/twikifier restart

        

Enable the script to start-up automatically on boot:



        update-rc.d twikifier defaults



Credit goes to https://github.com/chovy/node-startup for this.



###Socket File Location



By default, twikifier expects the socket file to live in

`/var/run/twikifier`. Create this folder, making sure the user running

twikifier can read/write:



    mkdir /var/run/twikifier

    chown user.user /var/run/twikifier



To use another location, add the absolute path as an argument to

twikifier in the start-up script.



# Why



TiddlyWeb and friends use [WikklyText](http://wikklytext.com/) to do sever-

side rendering of TiddlyWiki text to HTML. It works, but not great. It

has long been thought that a transcoding of the TiddlyWiki wikifier

would a) work better, b) be easier to extend and modify.



Also see [NOTES](/NOTES.md).



# Who



twikifier was written by Chris Dent and is Copyright 2011-2013, Peermore

Limited using a New BSD License. Thanks to Ben Paddock for packaging

things for the npm world.