I was referring only to book metadata, entries of the Library tracker plugin. As I would like to import entries to that plugin's book model it would take more than just importing a csv line into one tiddler, it has separate tiddlers with lists of authors, etc., so it's a bit more complex, I'll just go with writing a python script to do the import.
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 5:27 PM, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki < tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I have an experimental csv2json converter in this thread: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/tiddlywiki/csv|sort:date/tiddlywiki/qabE7I41Hos/L4kDni7ZBQAJ > > When you say "thousand books", do you mean the whole book, or just meta > data about the books? I don't think TW could handle the *content* of more > than a couple books (depending on size of course). > > Good luck, > Mark > > On Tuesday, July 5, 2016 at 1:26:58 AM UTC-7, László Zsigmond wrote: >> >> Haven't signed up for the thread, was thinking it is done automatically, >> but well, now I got your answer, thank you! >> >> You are right, I should have linked it, it is your pluging and I wasn't >> attentive enough to see that last used values are kept on new book edits. >> >> Unique apis that are a pain to work with: would just start out with >> google books api and accept apis that can recieve the same parameters and >> results in a json with the same layout, keys. >> >> First I would like to get my exisiting library get imported, I've read >> that it is cumbersome to import csv into tiddlywiki, better of to convert >> externally the cvs to json and then import it into tiddlywiki. >> Do you have any suggestions / descriptions on how to do this import? Like >> there are some ways of transforming csv to json, like to json/keyed >> json/json array/json column array. >> Would you advice to have a separate tiddlywiki for book collections? With >> some thusand books won't ruin the tiddlywiki experience? >> >> >> Best wishes, >> Laci >> >> >> >> 2016. július 2., szombat 20:45:29 UTC+3 időpontban Jed Carty a következőt >> írta: >>> >>> It took me a minute to realize that you are probably talking about my >>> plugin (the one listed here >>> <http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com/#%24%3A%2Fplugins%2Finmysocks%2FDashboard%2FDashboard>). >>> It is helpful to put a link to what you are talking about in posts like >>> this, I often forget about things I have made and if it isn't my plugin you >>> are talking about than I don't know where to look to find it. >>> >>> I am to the point where I think that I need to update many of my plugins >>> and to make a more unified interface and settings for them. >>> >>> As for your actual suggestions: >>> >>> I agree about the language field. I was living in the US when I first >>> made it and had maybe 3 non-english language books total so I didn't think >>> about it. This is much more relevant now that I moved to France. When I get >>> to updating the library tracker I will add that as a default field. Until >>> then you can add custom fields under the settings tab. >>> >>> The previously selected value is kept when you add a book, so this may >>> not actually be about my plugin. But I should add collections or something >>> similar that you can add books to with preselected information. I will try >>> to add that in a future release. >>> >>> We have been looking at importing and exporting tiddlers from tiddlywiki >>> lately and I think that I should make sure that the tiddlers are in a form >>> that can be nicely imported or exported using the built-in methods instead >>> of making something new. Hopefully we will be improving the built-in >>> methods. >>> >>> Making tiddlywiki work with 3rd party services seems to be a theme >>> lately. The problem with something like this is that different services >>> often have unique apis that are a pain to work with. I am not at all >>> opposed to making add-on plugins to add this sort of functionality, but I >>> don't think I will every make it a priority. >>> If the service being contacted allows queries via xmlhttprequests than >>> it probably won't be difficult but I still wouldn't have much motivation to >>> work on it. >>> Updating drop-downs in real time based on calls to 3rd party services in >>> tiddlywiki should be possible, but I think that it would take some work to >>> make it operate smoothly. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/sbNSbjB4p0A/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/95792f74-1bef-44e4-8ff8-a99e9ce02d04%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/95792f74-1bef-44e4-8ff8-a99e9ce02d04%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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