Automate Export Of Space To PDF

[Michael Main]

Is there anyway to automate the export of a workspace to PDF? we are looking to export weekly updated documentation from confluence and to save the manually process each week we are looking for a way to automate this. 

[Alicia Fehling]

Does anybody know an option without any Add-Ons? I'm a littlebit shocked, that there is no solution without paying another Add-On? 

[Oriyah Barzilay]

Did you find a way?

[Reshma Begum _Appfire_]

Hi  @Michael Main ,

As part of Appfire’s acquisition of Bobswift, the documentation is migrated to Appfire Command Line Interface (CLI)

CLI provides the exportSpace action to export the space to a file. Please refer to this example to export a space to pdf.
You can install the client from this location: Downloads and install the connector app for your respective Atlassian host i.e., Confluence CLI from the marketplace 

You need to have your own automation set up to run this action.

Hope this helps!

BTW, I'm from Appfire, the vendor of CLI app.

Thanks,
Reshma

[Sergey Gradovich]

Is it possible to export only few particular branches from the whole space tree?

I checked you example, but I don't see this functionality.

[Riley Venable]

Yes, it is possible to automate the export of a workspace to PDF using the Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI) https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CSOAP/Confluence+Command+Line+Interface. The CLI allows for the automation of a variety of Confluence tasks, including exporting a space to PDF. You can set up a script to run on a regular schedule to automatically export the space to PDF and save it to a designated location.

[Stefan Rodic]

Can. you somehow share to me since I get this 
stefan rodic@domain.co doesn't have access to Confluence on bobswift.atlassian.net.

[Joshua Smith]

Yes.  I have tried this and I get a PDF but it says that the PDF is corrupt.  When I open the PDF with notepad, the is a big long url that will actually open what looks like it should be the PDF in a browser.  But I need the PDF to work.

[Bartosz Maleta]

Riley Venable

I am also getting "...doesn't have access to Confluence on bobswift.atlassian.net." 

Could You please share this page or access to it?

@Stefan Rodic

Did You get access from Riley?

[Sam Speight]

I couldn't access the article so did some poking around.
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/284/confluence-command-line-interface-cli?tab=overview&hosting=cloud

You can see in the description that it was formerly the add-in from Bob Swift. 
Unfortunately it is a paid add in. Probably not something I can justify for the narrow use case I wanted it for unfortunately. 

[David Puchosic]

Hi all,
We recently joined the Cloud platform and running the CLI. 
For PDF Exports, I get the same result as Joshua reported above. The PDF Export was always 2kb and noticed it has the aws link and it works to download the file.

  However, is there a way to avoid this?  I tried the --options useUIApi as well.

A space HTML export works fine and you get a downloaded zip file returned.

Thanks!

[David Puchosic]

I believe my issue above is tied to a limitation in size of space content that PDF can handle. It would be ideal to possibly output based on a label collection. Vote it up! https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFCLOUD-76314