tiddly2kitaab/tiddly2kitaab.py

import json

def createFile(tiddler):
    try:
        created = tiddler['created']
    except KeyError:
        print("!!! BLANK TIDDLER !!!")
        print(tiddler)
        return
    title = tiddler['title']
    text = tiddler['text']
    modified = tiddler['modified']
    tags = tiddler['tags']

    # create the filename
    filename = created[2:8] # YYMMDD
    filename = filename + "-"
    hour = title[-5:]
    time = hour.replace(':', '')
    filename = filename+time+'.wiki'

    # handle tags
    allTags = ':'
    tagList = tags.replace('[', '').replace(']', '').split(' ') # Ugly one liner
    for t in tagList:
        if t == 'Journal':
            t = 'jrnl'
        allTags = allTags + t + ':'

    # handle date
    date = created[:4] + '-' + created[4:6] + '-' + created[6:8] + ' ' + hour

    # create write list
    writeList = ['%title {}\n'.format(title), allTags, '\n', '%date {}\n'.format(date), '\n', text]

    # create and write the file
    file = open('./jrnl/'+filename, 'w+')
    file.writelines(writeList)
    file.close()

def createFiles(tiddlers):
    for t in tiddlers:
        createFile(t)

tid = json.load(open('tiddlers.json'))
createFiles(tid)