custom import script

[jobidon]

I am considering writing a script to parse a custom json file and import some of the content into trilium.
Is there a way to pop up a file open dialog within a trilium script? Or is there a way to hook into trilium's import mechanism to do this?

[zadam]

I think it would be easier to create a script which converts your custom JSON file into the format expected by trilium (ZIPped folder hierarchy of HTML files)

[jobidon]

I ended up writing a backend script to parse the json and create notes as needed. I created a child note with the json file and imported it like this:

`
const dataNote = api.currentNote.children[0];
const json = dataNote.getJsonContent();

json.entries.forEach(function parseEvents(item, eventIndex) {
//get the parent note for this entry
const entryDate=item.date.year +'-' + item.date.month +'-'+item.date.day;
const parentNoteId = api.getDateNote(entryDate).noteId;
item.images.forEach(function parseImages(image, imageIndex, images) {
const title= item.headline;
const note = api.createTextNote(parentNoteId, title, image.desc).note;
note.toggleRelation(false, "runOnAttributeChange");
note.toggleLabel(false, "cssClass");
note.setLabel('readOnly');
});
});
`

[zadam]

For future readers, 0.50 will contain a REST API (called ETAPI) which will be probably for this use case easier to use.