There's also org-ql (https://github.com/alphapapa/org-ql), which also provides a query-based API against Org structures.
--Diego On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 2:59 PM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 01:15:56PM +0200, Przemysław Kamiński wrote: > > [...] > > > There's the org-json (or ox-json) package but for some reason I > > wasn't able to run it successfully. I guess export to S-exps would > > be best here. But yes I'll check that out. > > If that's your route, perhaps the "Org element API" [1] might be > helpful. Especially `org-element-parse-buffer' gives you a Lisp > data structure which is supposed to be a parse of your Org buffer. > > From there to S-expression can be trivial (e.g. `print' or `pp'), > depending on what you want to do. > > Walking the structure should be nice in Lisp, too. > > The topic of (non-Emacs) parsing of Org comes up regularly, and > there is a good (but AFAIK not-quite-complete) Org syntax spec > in Worg [2], but there are a couple of difficulties to be mastered > before such a thing can become really enjoyable and useful. > > The loose specification of Org's format (arguably its second > or third strongest asset, the first two being its incredible > community and Emacs itself) is something which makes this > problem "interesting". People have invented lots of usages > which might be broken should Org change to a strict formal > spec. You don't want to break those people. > > But yes, perhaps some day someone nails it. Perhaps it's you :) > > Cheers > > [1] https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-element-api.html > [2] https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html > > - t >
