Retrieve all database names in a CouchDB database and create a Couchpenter config.

couchdb2couchpenter.js

var fs = require('fs');
var http = require('http');
var url = require('url');

if (process.argv.length !== 3) {
  console.error('Usage: node couchdb2couchpenter.js https://host:port');
  process.exit(1);
}

var _url = url.parse(process.argv[2]);
var options = {
  host: _url.hostname,
  port: _url.port,
  path: '/_all_dbs/',
  method: 'GET'
};

var request = require(_url.protocol.replace(/:$/, '')).request(options, function (response) {
  response.on('data', function(data) {
    var dbs = JSON.parse(data);
    var hash = {};
    dbs.forEach(function (db) {
      hash[db] = [];
    });
    var output = JSON.stringify(hash);
    console.dir(output)
    fs.writeFileSync('couchpenter.json', output);
  });
});
request.on('error', function(err) {
  console.error(err.message);
});
request.end();