confluence-pod

A V1 Dendron Pod to publish notes to your personal Confluence space.

Installation

cd {workspace}
{workspace} $ npm init -y
{workspace} $ npm install --global @dendronhq/dendron-cli
{workspace} $ npm install --save @tomduffield/confluence-pod

Install From Source

~/code $ git clone https://github.com/tduffield/confluence-pod.git
~/code/confluence-pod $ yarn install
~/code/confluence-pod $ npm link
{workspace} $ npm init -y
{workspace} $ npm install --global dendron-cli
{workspace} $ npm link confluence-pod

Usage

cd {workspace}
dendron publishPod \
  --wsRoot . \
  --vault vault \
  --podId dendron.confluence \
  --podPkg @tomduffield/confluence-pod \
  --podSource custom \
  --configPath './pods/dendron.confluence/config.yml' \
  --query '<YOUR_NOTE>'

Bash Helper

You can copy and paste this function into your shell profile (e.g., ~/.bashrc) to give yourself a nifty helper. Just replace {workspace} with the fully-qualified path to your Dendron workspace. You can also replace the fallback vault value to whatever your default vault might be.

function publish-note-to-confluence() {
  query="$1"
  vault="${2:-vault}"
  workspace="{workspace}"
  dendron-cli publishPod --wsRoot "$workspace" --vault "$vault" \
    --podId dendron.confluence --podPkg @tomduffield/confluence-pod --podSource custom \
    --configPath "${workspace}/pods/dendron.confluence/config.yml" \
    --query "$query"
}

Configuration

Create the Pod configuration file in ./pods/dendron.confluence/config.yml.

username: <your_email>
password: <your_api_key>
baseUrl: https://<your_organization>.atlassian.net
space: "~012345678" # e.g., "~[0-9]{9}"
parentPageId: "0123456789" # e.g., "[0-9]{10}"
includeNote: false

Option	Description	Default
username	The username you use to log in to Confluence (typically your email)	required
password	An API Token you generated	required
baseUrl	The domain root for your Confluence installation	required
space	The reference to the space where you want to upload	required
parentPageId	The page under which all pages are published	None: uploads directly to the space.
includeNote	Whether or not to include an info panel at the top of the page indicating the page is exported from Dendron	false

Confluence Storage Format Support

Atlassian Confluence's Storage Format is XHTML based, which means that Dendron's built-in HTML processor gets us 95% of the way there. Where there are exceptions, this Pod leverages a custom unified plugin to re-process the HTML appropriately.

Format Type	Status
Basic HTML	✅
Task Lists	🚧
Link to Another Confluence Page	✅
Attached Image	✅
External Image	✅
Image Attributes	🚧

Limitations

• Exported notes do not include the Children or Backlink sections. This is something we'd like to support in the future however.
• All notes are currently published as children pages to your parentPageId. We do not re-create your hierarchy (yet).
• This pod has only been tested on the Confluence Cloud.

Features

Cross-note Links

If you include a reference to another note that is also published to Confluence (i.e., the note has a pageId in its frontmatter), then this pod should properly create an <ac:link> to that page. Otherwise, this pod will leave the the <a> tag alone and it should get stripped out by Confluence (leaving just the text).

Image Attachments

This pod will upload any referenced images from ./assets as attachments and convert the <img> element to <ac:image>.

Info Block

If you set includeNote in your config to true, this pod will prepend an info block to the top of your page indicating that this note was exported from Dendron and that changes made to the page directly may be overwritten.

Debugging

The most likely bug you'll run into once you get things working is com.atlassian.confluence.api.service.exceptions.BadRequestException: Content body cannot be converted to new editor format. This means that there's something in the HTML that Confluence doesn't like. This means that there's probably an edge case that I haven't caught (apologies).