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Markdown to Confluence Publisher (mdtocf)

Markdown files/directory publishing to Atlassian Confluence.

Install from PyPI

https://pypi.org/project/mdtocf/

# python3 -m venv venv
# source venv/bin/activate
pip install mdtocf

Publish to Confluence

python3 -m mdtocf.mdtocf --help
###
# Example usage:
# https://olafrv.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~5ed387058884020c24da5a42/pages/131089/Test
# - confluenceUsername: your Atlassian account email.
# - confluenceApiToken: see https://id.atlassian.com/manage-profile/security/api-tokens
# - confluenceUrl: your Atlassian Confluence URL, e.g. https://olafrv.atlassian.net
# - confluenceSpace: the target Confluence space ID, e.g. ~5ed387058884020c24da5a42
# - confluenceParentPageId: the target parent page ID, e.g. 131089
###
python3 -m mdtocf.mdtocf \
    --confluenceUsername "olafrv@gmail.com" \
    --confluenceApiToken "${CONFLUENCE_API_TOKEN}" \
    --confluenceUrl "https://olafrv.atlassian.net" \
    --confluenceSpace "~5ed387058884020c24da5a42" \
    --confluenceParentPageId "131089" \
    --confluencePageTitlePrefix "[Test] " \
    --markdownDir ./examples \
    --db ./examples.db

Console Output

Output:

UPD => Update in Confluence. IDX => Index page in Confluence. SKP => Skip update in Confluence. DEL => Delete page in Confluence.

# --- Delete ./examples.db file ---
# --- Delete all pages in Confluence space ---
# --- 1st run ---
UPD => Title: [Test] _index.md
IDX => Title: [Test] Folder B
UPD => Title: [Test] bb.md
UPD => Title: [Test] aa.md
UPD Att. => Title: example.png
UPD => Title: [Test] example.md
UPD Att. => Title: example.png
# --- 2nd run (re-run) ---
SKP => Title: [Test] _index.md
SKP => Title: [Test] Folder B
SKP => Title: [Test] bb.md
SKP => Title: [Test] aa.md
DEL Att. => Title: example.png
UPD Att. => Title: example.png
SKP => Title: [Test] example.md
DEL Att. => Title: example.png
UPD Att. => Title: example.png
# --- Delete all sub pages in Confluence space ---
# --- 3nd run ---
SKP => Title: [Test] _index.md
Can't find '[Test] _index.md' page on https://olafrv.atlassian.net/wiki
SKP => Title: [Test] Folder B
Can't find '[Test] Folder B' page on https://olafrv.atlassian.net/wiki
SKP => Title: [Test] bb.md
Can't find '[Test] bb.md' page on https://olafrv.atlassian.net/wiki
SKP => Title: [Test] aa.md
Can't find '[Test] aa.md' page on https://olafrv.atlassian.net/wiki
DEL Att. => Title: example.png
UPD Att. => Title: example.png
SKP => Title: [Test] example.md
Can't find '[Test] example.md' page on https://olafrv.atlassian.net/wiki
DEL Att. => Title: example.png
UPD Att. => Title: example.png

The "Can't find..." means "not found but creating..." (Python Atlassian API).

Results in Confluence

Rendering and publishing ./examples produce the following final result in Confluence:

Result #1

Result #2

About Markdown Compatibility

This scripts depends on Mistune v2 Markdown Parser, compatible with CommonMark

The (optional) metadata heading in markdown (.md) files likes the one which follows below used by Hugo, it is not part of CommonMarkdown standard, but just a popular way of specify in YAML markdown metadata usable for external tools.

---
title: My Page Title
date: 2019-03-26T08:47:11+01:00
draft: true
chapter: true
kind: index
---

It is parsed and partially used by this script to organize the content in Atlassian Confluence.

Development

Install from source as local editable package:

git clone "https://github.com/olafrv/mdtocf.git"
cd mdtocf
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
./release.sh  # development and release to PyPI flow

References

Python v3

Markdown Utils

Confluence and Storage Format (Cloud API)

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