Etherpad CLI Client

Interact with Etherpad contents in real time from within Node and from your CLI.

5 seconds getting started...

sudo npm install -g etherpad-cli-client
etherpad https://beta.etherpad.org/p/clitest

Visit etherpad https://beta.etherpad.org/p/clitest in your browser and start typing...

Installation

sudo npm install -g etherpad-cli-client

CLI

Get help

etherpad

Stream Pad to CLI

etherpad http://127.0.0.1:9001/p/test

Append contents to pad

etherpad http://127.0.0.1:9001/p/test -a "hello world"

NODE

Basic Example

var etherpad = require("etherpad-cli-client");
var pad = etherpad.connect(); // Note no host or padId, will connect to random pad Id on localhost

pad.on("connected", function(padState){
  console.log("Connected to ", padState.host);
});

pad.on("message", function(message){
  console.log("New message from Etherpad Server", message);
});

pad.on("disconnect", function(e){
  console.log("disconnected from pad", e);
  process.exit(code=0)
});

Stream Pad Text contents to CLI

var etherpad = require("etherpad-cli-client");
var pad = etherpad.connect("http://127.0.0.1:9001/p/test");
pad.on("newContents", function(atext){
  console.log("\u001b[2J\u001b[0;0H");
  console.log("Test Pad Contents", "\n"+atext.text);
});

Append contents to Pad

var etherpad = require("etherpad-cli-client");
var pad = etherpad.connect("http://127.0.0.1:9001/p/test");
pad.on("connected", function(){
  setInterval(function(){
    pad.append("hello world spam"); // Appends Hello to the Pad contents
  }, 200);
});

Prefix contents to Pad

TODO

Write contents to specific location in Pad

TODO

Todo

Prefix Pad content