Perl dependencies:
- DateTime
- Moose
- HTML::WikiConverter
- HTML::WikiConverter::Markdown
- Template::Toolkit
These can be installed by running
sudo perl -MCPAN -e "install DateTime Moose HTML::WikiConverter HTML::WikiConverter::Markdown"
Please note that because of a bug in HTML::WikiConverter, you'll need to follow the instructions at the link to make it work correctly.
use Evernote::EnexParser;
use Evernote::Note::Markdown;
my $enex_file = "EvernoteExport.enex";
my $parser = Evernote::EnexParser->new(xmlfile => $enex_file, body_parser => Evernote::Note::Markdown->new );
my @notes = $parser->notes;
foreach my $note ( @notes ) {
printf "Title: %s\n", $note->title;
printf "Tags: %s\n", join(", ", @{$note->tags} );
printf "RawBody: %s\n", $note->raw_body;
}
Parsing the body is the tricky part. Evernote has special tags for pictures, videos, etc. I really need to do an xslt transformation on the note body, but I've never done that before, so it will be a while before I get to that. Any help in that would be welcome. The xslt stylesheet would not have to do much -- copy most nodes, but transform en-media and en-todo.
The parsing is pluggable -- if you find a better way to create the Markdown, you can create a perl module with the parse method, and pass an instance of your module to the script. Your parse method will be called to generate the body.
I've included a starter script en2something.pl to get you started. Use it by calling it as
PERL5LIB=lib ./en2something.pl --output output-dir --enex path/to/exportedNotes.enex --template templates/t1.body.tt --tagspaces --extension md
It will parse the notes and print out the title of each note. Files will be created as markdown in the output-dir. How the note is written is determined by the template (using Template::Toolkit). If --tagspaces is given, the tags will be inserted into the filename.
There is an example enex file in the t folder for reference.
No media is handled. Images and videos are ignored. The next step is to do an xslt transformation on the note body, but I have never done that before, so I'm starting from scratch.