Cosmere

Sync your markdown files to confluence.

Features

• upload new versions only when necessary
• upload/delete local images as attachments
• supports the original markdown spec and parts from CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown
• can be used as a CLI command or in a script

Usage

Global Installation

npm install -g cosmere

# or

yarn global add cosmere

Library

npm install --save-dev cosmere

# or

yarn add --dev cosmere

Configuration

To get started generate configuration using

cosmere generate-config [--config=<path>]

which produces:

{
    "baseUrl": "<your base url including /rest/api>",
    "user": "<your username>",
    "pass": "<your password>",
    "personalAccessToken": "<your personal access token (can be set instead of username/password)>",
    "cachePath": "build",
    "prefix": "This document is automatically generated. Please don't edit it directly!",
    "pages": [
        {
            "pageId": "1234567890",
            "file": "README.md",
            "title": "Optional title in the confluence page, remove to use # h1 from markdown file instead"
        }
    ]
}

Continuous Integration

In most scenarios it is not recommended storing your credentials in the configuration file, because you will probably add it to your VCS. Instead, it is recommended to provide the following environment variables in your build pipeline (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ...):

CONFLUENCE_USERNAME=YOUR_USERNAME
CONFLUENCE_PASSWORD=YOUR_PASSWORD

or

CONFLUENCE_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN="<your auth token>"

or add it in front of the command when executing locally (add a space in front of the command when using bash in order to not write the credentials to the bash history):

 CONFLUENCE_USER=YOUR_USERNAME CONFLUENCE_PASSWORD=YOUR_PASSWORD cosmere
 # or
 CONFLUENCE_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN="<your personal access token>" cosmere

Run

# global installation
cosmere --help

# local installation with yarn
yarn cosmere --hhelp

# local installation with npm
npm run cosmere --help

# or plain
node_modules/.bin/cosmere --help

or create an alias:

{
    "scripts": {
        "pushdoc": "cosmere"
    }
}

Using Cosmere as a library

import cosmere from "cosmere/dist/src/lib";
import ConfluenceRenderer from "cosmere/dist/src/ConfluenceRenderer";

class CustomRenderer extends ConfluenceRenderer {
    constructor(options, config, page) {
        super(options, config, page);
    }

    image(href, title, text) {
        if (href.startsWith("http")) {
            return `<ac:image ac:width="768px" ac:height="768px"><ri:url ri:value="${href}" /></ac:image>`;
        }
        return `<ac:image ac:width="768px" ac:height="768px"><ri:attachment ri:filename="${href}" /></ac:image>`;
    }
}

const config = {
    baseUrl: "<your base url including /rest/api>",
    user: "<your username>",
    pass: "<your password>",
    cachePath: "build",
    prefix: "This document is automatically generated. Please don't edit it directly!",
    insecure: false,
    force: false,
    fileRoot: "/usr/bin/myawesomefolder",
    pages: [
        {
            pageId: "1234567890",
            file: "README.md", // this path will be evaluated as fileRoot + file
            title: "Optional title in the confluence page, remove to use # h1 from markdown file instead",
        },
    ],
    customRenderer: CustomRenderer,
};

await cosmere(config);

Troubleshooting

Custom certificates on Confluence instance

Use the --insecure option for your cosmere call in order to not reject invalid certificates. This is risky, and it's preferable to get proper certificates.

Need new features?

Please, feel free to create any issues and pull request that you need.

Release

1. Add feature/fix bugs etc.
2. Document changes in CHANGELOG.md (with the new version)
3. Commit everything
4. Push/merge to main
5. Run

   yarn release
   yarn np <major|minor|patch>

History

md2confluence

I had various scripts that stitched markdown files together and uploaded them. I forked md2confluence by Jormar Arellano and started playing around with that, but quickly noticed that many markdown files broke due to the conversion process (wiki -> storage instead of directly to storage).

Cosmere

The project diverged from its original intent and so I decided to rename it. Cosmere is the wonderful universe of various books written by Brandon Sanderson. If you are into fantasy I strongly recommend checking him out.

License

See LICENSE.