OPML Source

Command line tool to export source code from an opml outline.

Based on nodeEditor example

Install Globally

npm install -g @andrewshell/opmlsrc

Test with davefilesystem.opml

You'll want to have a properly formatted OPML file like davefilesystem.opml.

Calling opmlsrc <filename> will process the file into the current directory.

Example

cd ~
mkdir davefilesystem
cd davefilesystem
wget http://code.shll.me/davefilesystem.opml?format=opml -O davefilesystem.opml
opmlsrc davefilesystem.opml
ls -la

You should see something like:

total 48
drwxr-xr-x   7 andrewshell  staff   224 Nov 20 13:55 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 93 andrewshell  staff  2976 Nov 20 13:54 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 andrewshell  staff  5396 Nov 20 13:55 davefilesystem.opml
-rw-r--r--   1 andrewshell  staff  5532 Nov 20 13:55 filesystem.js
-rw-r--r--   1 andrewshell  staff   351 Nov 20 13:55 package.json
-rw-r--r--   1 andrewshell  staff   577 Nov 20 13:55 readme.md
drwxr-xr-x   4 andrewshell  staff   128 Nov 20 13:55 testing

Watching during development

If you're actively working on a project you might want the files to be updated when you update the outline. Do do this just add the --watch flag to your call.

opmlsrc davefilesystem.opml --watch

Supports includes

If you look in davefilesystem.opml you'll see the line:

[[http://fargo.io/code/node/shared/fs.js]]

This is an include. We will fetch this document and replace that block with the file contents.

When you're watching an outline with includes in it, I try to be helpful and cache the file in memory. On every build we re-request this document with the last etag and if we get back a status 304 Not Modified than we use the local cache.

Local includes

In addition to specifying a full URL, you can include local files by using the file: prefix like this:

[[file:package.json]]

It will try to find your file based on the location of the opml file you're processing.

Ignores comments

If your OPML file has an outline with the attribute isComment=true, we will ignore that branch and it will not end up in the rendered file.