triggering send-message from a permalink URL

[K P]

I am using Ben Weber's DND campaign tools twiki (https://benwebber.github.io/tiddlywiki-dnd/).

It has a feature to export a copy of the twiki that only include non-system tiddlers w/ the 'Public' tag.  Core to that feature is calling send-message 'tm-download-file'.

I am looking for a way to automate this via a cron and wget.

I've been looking but am at a loss of a way to trigger an action widget via direct URl call.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

[Eric Shulman]

Try this:

1) In your TiddlyWiki, create a new tiddler named "download", containing:
```
\import $:/plugins/benwebber/dnd/ui/Buttons/export-player-edition
<$list filter="[{$:/info/url/search}match[?download]]">
   <<actions>>
</$list>
```
2) tag this tiddler with `$:/tags/StartupAction/PostRender`

Then, to trigger the action from a URI, add `?download` to the end of the URI.  The result should be the same as using the "Export Player Edition" button from the sidebar page controls.

Note that I tested this by loading into a browser.  It might not work when using wget, as "$:/tags/StartupAction/PostRender" is only triggered when running in a browser.  I also tried "$:/tags/StartupAction", which should work even without a browser (i.e., using wget), but it didn't seem to work for my tests, and I'm not sure why.

Let me know how it goes...

-e

[K P]

I see what you mean, It works in browser, but i can't get it to trigger from commandline.

I was unaware of the StartupAction tags, and so now i need to go read up more.