Confluence (3.0.0_01) how to connect into server and then extract wiki page (html) using NodeJS?

[Steve Webster]

My client has Wiki residing on Confluence using an older version 3.0.0_01 and they want to enter a path (url) to a specific page/space and then extract in html and insert in an internal Google Site.

1. With this older version, how do I connect? What API?

2. Once connected, what API can I use to extract/export in HTML?

3. Note: client has another version 3.5.6 with just a couple pages/spaces that also need extraction.

Thank you in advance!

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist]]

There's a SOAP API for Confluence 3 (see https://developer.atlassian.com/confdev/deprecated-apis/confluence-xml-rpc-and-soap-apis ), but it's not going to give you html.  You'll have to convert anything you fetch from wiki markup to html by yourself.

You might find it easier to just scrape the page directly.

[Steve Webster]

Thank you, Nic.

The SOAP and work to get it to HTML is a lot work and testing. Perhaps, I will have the client manually export to html (assuming that option exists in UI) and then upload to a web app.

[Steve Webster]

Interesting. Nic, from your reference link I found this Python script. Perhaps NodeJS with this script or one similar may work. Thoughts?

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Export+Space

Kind Regards,

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist]]

Nice find!  I think that could be converted to NodeJS reasonably easily (I'm not a Javascript coder, and my Python isn't a lot better, but it does feel right)