frederickdelta / util-timelinejs-sqlite2json-converter

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About

TimelineJS is an useful tool. To make a timeline, you can use Google spreadsheet or JSON to store your data. I choose JSON, because I don't like to rely on a 3rd party service, and it seems to me that JSON gives me more freedom.

But editing JSON file is painful, especially when you have many slides in a timeline. Purpose of this tool is to read data from a sqlite db which has the same data structure as the Google spreadsheet, convert it into JSON.

Usage

Step 1

Clone the repo

Step 2

Open the folder, install it to global

npm install -g .

Step 3

You can use free tool like DB Browser for SQLite to open timeline.sqlite, input timeline data.

Step 4

After you finish data input, run command below to generate JSON

timelinejs-s2j <SqliteFilepath> <JSONFilepath>

eg.

timelinejs-s2j timeline.sqlite timeline.json

Voila! You'll get TimelineJS ready JSON data in timeline.json

Known Issues

• Not handling all the "time" properties in "date" object