73 lines
3.4 KiB
Markdown
73 lines
3.4 KiB
Markdown
This utility takes a markdown file, and creates a new markdown file in which each link is accompanied by an archive.org link, in the format [...](original link) ([a](archive.org link)).
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## How to install
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Add [this file](https://github.com/NunoSempere/longNowForMd/blob/master/longnow.sh) to your path, for instance by moving it to the `/usr/bin` folder and giving it execute permissions (with `chmod 755 longnow.sh`)
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```
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curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NunoSempere/longNowForMd/master/longnow > longnow
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cat longnow ## probably a good idea to at least see what's there before giving it execute permissions
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sudo chmod 755 longnow
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mv longnow /bin/longnow
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```
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In addition, this utility requires [archivenow](https://github.com/oduwsdl/archivenow) as a dependency, which itself requires a python installation. archivenow can be installed with
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```
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pip install archivenow ## respectively, pip3
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```
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## How to use
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```
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$ longnow file.md
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```
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For a reasonably sized file, the process will take a long time, so this is more of a "fire and forget, and then come back in a couple of hours" tool. The process can be safely stopped and restarted at any point, and archive links are remembered, but the errors file is created again each time.
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## To do
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- Deal elegantly with images. Right now, they are also archived, and have to be removed manually afterwards.
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- Possibly: Throttle requests to the internet archive less. Right now, I'm sending a link roughly every 12 seconds, and then sleeping for a minute every 15 requests. This is probably too much throttling (the theoretical limit is 15 requests per minute), but I think that it does reduce the error rate.
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- Do the same thing but for html files, or other formats
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- Present to r/DataHoarders
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- Pull requests are welcome.
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## How to use to back up Google Files
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You can download a .odt file from Google, and then convert it to a markdown file with
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```
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function odtToMd(){
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input="$1"
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root="$(echo "$input" | sed 's/.odt//g' )"
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output="$root.md"
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pandoc -s "$input" -t markdown-raw_html-native_divs-native_spans-fenced_divs-bracketed_spans | awk ' /^$/ { print "\n"; } /./ { printf("%s ", $0); } END { print ""; } ' | sed -r 's/([0-9]+\.)/\n\1/g' | sed -r 's/\*\*(.*)\*\*/## \1/g' | tr -s " " | sed -r 's/\\//g' | sed -r 's/\[\*/\[/g' | sed -r 's/\*\]/\]/g' > "$output"
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## Explanation:
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## markdown-raw_html-native_divs-native_spans-fenced_divs-bracketed_spans: various flags to generate some markdown I like
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## sed -r 's/\*\*(.*)\*\*/## \1/g': transform **Header** into ## Header
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## sed -r 's/\\//g': Delete annoying "\"s
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## awk ' /^$/ { print "\n"; } /./ { printf("%s ", $0); } END { print ""; } ': compress paragraphs; see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6910/there-must-be-a-better-way-to-replace-single-newlines-only
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## sed -r 's/([0-9]*\.)/\n\1/g': Makes lists nicer.
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## tr -s " ": Replaces multiple spaces
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}
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## Use: odtToMd file.odt
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```
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Then run this tool (`longnow.sh file.md`). Afterwards, convert the output file (`file.longnow.md`) back to html with
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```
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function mdToHTML(){
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input="$1"
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root="$(echo "$input" | sed 's/.md//g' )"
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output="$root.html"
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pandoc -r gfm "$source" -o "$output"
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## sed -i 's|\[ \]\(([^\)]*)\)| |g' "$source" ## This removes links around spaces, which are very annoying. See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/297686/non-greedy-match-with-sed-regex-emulate-perls
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}
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## Use: mdToHTML file.md
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```
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Then copy and paste the html into a Google doc and fix fomatting mistakes.
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