Getting the confluence page content as plaintext using CLI .

[aravind]

Hi All,

Can we get the page content as plain text using CLI or by other means .

I tried below commands,

./confluence.sh --action renderPage --space "spacename" --title "This is title 1" --> this page as html

./confluence.sh -a getPageSource --space spacename --title "This is title 1"

Both does not not suffice the requirements.

Any suggestions will be apprecieated.

Thanks,

Aravind

[aravind]

Thanks Bob.

[Bob Swift]

Confluence 4.x and above no longer has plain text source. Data is stored as XHTML. So, no, there is no way to retrieve plain text using the CLI. If you really need wiki back, you can use the wikifier.

[aravind]

Thanks for the update .

Is there any other way apart from CLI which i can use to get contents in plain text format .

[aravind]

Thanks for the update .

Is there any other way apart from CLI which i can use to get contents in plain text format .

[Bob Swift]

No, there is not.

[aravind]

I was trying to export the spaces as html , XML using below commands

./confluence.sh --action exportSpace --space "zconfluencecliTarget" --file "target/output/confluencecli/export.html" --exportType "HTML"
./confluence.sh --action exportSpace --space "zconfluencecliTarget" --file "target/output/confluencecli/export.xml"

but the output html, XML has unicode charecters instead of text, Any idea why it happens

Also this is not seen when i try exporting this as pdf .

[aravind]

I was trying to use below commands to export the spaces as html, XML , but output generated has some encoding issues , the charecters are not displayed properly ,

./confluence.sh --action exportSpace --space "zconfluencecliTarget" --file "target/output/confluencecli/export.html" --exportType "HTML"
./confluence.sh --action exportSpace --space "zconfluencecliTarget" --file "target/output/confluencecli/export.xml"

any idea why it happens ?

[Bob Swift]

You may need to open an issue so you can provide more details. You may need to specify the encoding parameter to match your Confluence setting.

[aravind]

Thanks for the reply .

specify the encoding parameter to match your Confluence setting.

Could you please let me know what encoding param needs to be specified.

[Bob Swift]

For instance, if your Confluence is UTF8, then try --encoding UTF8