Convert a folder of markdown text to an ikiwiki hierarchy

nv2iki

#!/usr/bin/python
from glob import glob
from optparse import OptionParser 
from os.path import join, basename
from email import message_from_file
from os import getenv
from os.path import splitext
import re

if __name__ == "__main__":
  parser = OptionParser()
  parser.add_option("-o", "--output", dest="output", default=join(getenv("HOME"), "Dropbox/homepage"),
                    help="output directory")
  opts, args = parser.parse_args()
  
  if not args:
	args = [join(getenv("HOME"), "Dropbox/notes")]
  
  files = glob(join(args[0], "*.mdwn")) + glob(join(args[0], "*.txt"))

  for f in files:
    m = message_from_file(open(f))
    f = splitext(basename(f))[0]
    filename = basename(re.sub("[\t ]", "-", f))
    filename = re.sub("[().]", "", filename) + ".mdwn"
    filename = filename.lower()
    title = "[[!meta title=\"%s\"]]" % f
    tags = []
    project = None
    permalink = None
    if "Tags" in m:
      tags = ["%s" % x.strip() for x in m['Tags'].split(",")]
    
    if not "public" in tags:
      continue
    else:
      tags.remove("public")
    
    if tags:
      tagsString = "[[!tag %s]]" % " ".join(tags)

    # Backward compatibility perma-link
    if "Permalink" in m:
      permalink = m['Permalink'].strip()
    
    if "Project" in m:
      project = m['Project'].strip()

    if project:
      filename = join(opts.output, project, filename)
    elif permalink:
      filename = join(opts.output, permalink + ".mdwn")
    else:
      filename = join(opts.output, filename)

    print filename
      
    fp = file(filename, "w")
    fp.write(title + "\n")
    if tags:
      fp.write(tagsString + "\n")
    fp.write(m.get_payload())