Migrate Evernote personal-wiki to Joplin

pentop · 2020-01-26T16:13:07.976Z

Hi there, loving Joplin so far!

I had/have a personal wiki in Evernote which am porting over to live in Joplin.

I knocked up something in python which uses the Joplin API to globally-search-and-replace my evernote links with Joplin links. Popping it here in case it’s useful to anyone

github.com

pentop/replaceEvernoteLinksWithJoplin/blob/master/migrate.py

import urllib.request
import json 

token = 'myJoplinToken' #replace from token from Joplin/Options/WebClipper
baseUrl = 'http://localhost:41184/'
tokenUrlPart = f'&token={token}'
commitChanges = False #Set to True to commit changes to notes
#ToDo - create a backup before we start! https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/best-method-to-backup-notes/1135

notesUrl = f'{baseUrl}notes?token{token}'

replacements={
    'evernote:///view/guid1/antherGuid1/':':/joplinLink1', #put your evernote links & joplin links here....
    'evernote:///view/guid2/antherGuid2/':':/joplinLink2'
    #etc, etc, etc
}

def replaceTextInNote(note, textToReplace, replacement):
    noteBody = note["body"]
    noteId = note["id"]

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bedwardly-down · 2020-01-26T17:06:02.384Z

This looks super useful. I haven’t used Evernote all that much but i love the idea that people are creating scripts to make moving to Joplin so much better.

Although, any way you could allow the user to pass their notes as arguments or even add a recursive feature so it doesn’t require the user to edit the script and add a --token flag or something?

pentop · 2020-01-26T17:22:12.804Z

bedwardly-down:

Although, any way you could allow the user to pass their notes as arguments or even add a recursive feature so it doesn't require the user to edit the script and add a --token flag or something?

Sure, that's a good idea and easy enough. Thanks for the idea!

pentop · 2020-03-05T14:23:18.396Z

bedwardly-down:

Although, any way you could allow the user to pass their notes as arguments or even add a recursive feature so it doesn’t require the user to edit the script and add a --token flag or something?

This is now done and pushed up to github.

michaelteck · 2023-08-09T15:15:50.007Z

Is there any way you can post your full source again? The links to Github are broken.