`divergence` is a simple python script for uploading markdown files to Confluence (a proprietary wiki system). If you find yourself needing to publish documentation to Confluence at work, but wish that instead you could just write markdown and keep it versioned in git instead of contending with browser-mangling javascript and pull-down menus, then this tool is for you! This is crude and one-way: there is no mechanism for synchronizing or retaining edits made by peers, won't look the way you want it to, there are no unittests, it will mangle your wiki space, and confound your sysadmins. Have Fun! # Installation and Setup You need **Python 3**, the **requests** python(3) library, and **pandoc** installed first: # debian/ubuntu sudo apt install python3 python3-requests pandoc # homebrew? guessing here sudo brew install python3 py3-requests pandoc To experiment you can checkout this repo and run commands locally. If you like it you can install system-wide with: sudo make install On the Confluence side, it uses the newer REST API (not the old XML-RPC API) and generates complete pages in "Confluence storage" syntax, so if you're lucky it will Just Work without needing any administrative intervention. # Usage export CONFLUENCE_USER=`whoami` export CONFLUENCE_PASSWORD="password123" export CONFLUENCE_URL="https://evil-corp.jira.com/wiki/" ./divergence -s "PROD25" Acme_Widget_Docs.md This will create a new page "Acme Widget Docs" under the space with ID "PROD25" (or overwrite it if it already exists). When experimenting you probably want to use your personal space, which will be something like "~bitdiddle". If you blow away something accidentally, it should be possible to revert the push in the wiki interface (this has not been verified). Multiple files can be uploaded at the same time. If you have in-line images you'll need to upload them manually. Haven't tried it yet. You might want to write a shell script wrapper to help with configuration and pushing multiple files to multiple spaces. It's probably possible to use any pandoc-supported markup file format (not just Markdown), but this hasn't been tested. Metadata can also be extracted from a pandoc-style YAML header in the markdown file itself. This is helpful if you want to override the (case-sensitive, and thus buggy) title/page matching behavior, or if you want to override the Confluence space for different documents. --- confluence-page-id: 12345 confluence-space-key: PRJ5 confluence-page-title: "Some Fancy Title Here" ... Space Key is used for creating pages and doing title-based lookup. If page-id (a number which can be found in the URL of pages on the confluence site) is given, that is used for lookup and editing instead. Other confluence metadata, such as the page hierarchy, can be modified in the Confluence web interface and should persist across updates from this tool.