Simple nodejs script for generating cURL commands that tag content using data from a .tsv file.

simple-aem-bulk-tagger.js

/**
 * A simple AEM bulk tagging utility script.
 *
 * Intended to be used in conjunction with the AEM bulk editor tool.
 * Since the tool doesn't handle array values very well, one can
 * use a script like this to achieve the same effect.
 *
 *
 * This script reads a tab separated file whose first column is the
 * content path that will be tagged and whose second column is a
 * comma separated list of AEM tag ID's to tag the specified content
 * path with.
 *
 * It outputs cURL commands that will apply the tags specified in
 * the .tsv. (Could just as easily perform the post as well). These
 * cURL commands can be redirected into a file and checked into
 * version control for later use.
 *
 * WARNING: this is a port of a shell script that has worked for me
 * in the past.  I haven't tested this version of the script so I
 * probably screwed something up and it could not work. But it
 * serves to illustrate the technique and should be tailored to suite.
 *
 * Created by tedd on 9/7/2014.
 */
var fs = require('fs'),
    readline = require('readline');

// script configuration
var config = {
    tsvFileToRead: 'test.data.tsv',
    serverName : '127.0.0.1',
    serverPort : '4502',
    adminUser : 'admin',
    adminPass : 'admin'
}

/**
 * Generate cURL command and log to stdout
 *
 * @param {string} path - AEM content path
 * @param {string} tags - comma separated AEM tag ID's
 */
function generateCurlCommand(path, tags) {

    tags = tags.replace('[','');
    tags = tags.replace(']','');
    path = path.replace(':','%3A');

    // TODO: account for empty tags value, perhaps delete any existing tags?

    var s = 'curl -u '+config.adminUser+':'+config.adminPass+' ';
    s += 'http://' + config.serverName + ':' + config.serverPort + path;
    tags.split(',').forEach(function(val){
        s +=' -F"cq:tags='+val+'"';
    });
    console.log(s);
}

// open file to process
var readDataFileHandle = readline.createInterface({
    input: fs.createReadStream(config.tsvFileToRead),
    output: process.stdout,
    terminal: false
});

// read file line by line, splitting on tabs and passing
// and generating the cURL command for the row in the .tsv
var firstRead = false;
readDataFileHandle.on('line', function(line) {
    if (! firstRead) {
        firstRead = true;
        return;
    }
    var vals = line.split('\t');
    var path = vals[0];
    var tags = vals[1];
    generateCurlCommand(path,tags);
});