Quick little piece of software to download sections of a Jive instance. There has been a lot of negative reporting about Jive's future, so it doesn't hurt to have a backup. There is probably many better ways of backing up a Jive instance, but I chose for an approach that is true to the original look and feel of the Jive instance and that shows the content as well as the comments.
The chosen approach is as follows:
- You specify the base URL of your Jive instance
- You specify one or a number of paths, such as:
- "
content?filterID=contentstatus%5Bpublished%5D" for your authored, published content - "
content?filterID=draft" for your drafts - "
community/dev/SPACE/content" for every space of interest (substituteSPACE)
- "
- Using Selenium WebDriver the software will retrieve the path, and find all the links in its list of content, then open each consecutive content item
- Using Java AWT
Robotthe software will save the page of each such consecutive content item - This happens in real time, so sit back and hang out
Some problems that the software has to deal with:
Robotrequires mouse positioning, don't touch your mouse or change focus- Also due to mouse positioning, without additional work, things are unlikely to work other than on Windows (where it was developed on)
- Jive takes control of Ctrl+S (for its search), so to use Ctrl+S to save the page, the software will precede that with Alt+D (to put focus on the address bar, where Ctrl+S truly means saving)
- Due to the specific key combinations, without additional work, things are unlikely to work other than on Chrome (where it was developed on)
- While the software deduplicates links that appear in multiple lists of content, while saving it may still encounter duplicate file names. For the moment, one just has to struggle through this
- Authentication, and in order to not enter the credentials in the software, the software will stop and give you five minutes to manually enter your credentials. The software assumes Okta for authentication
Use at your own risk. Use responsibly.
This project is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.