Re: Lost grdb

Matt,

I wrote a quick-n-dirty html scraper that is about 75% of the way there... I
see some obvious errors (looks like a person becomes their own child) and I
didn't handle events (the CSV importer doesn't do events, yet). There are
probably other major things... ran out of time.

Here it is:

http://bubo.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/getnarrative.py

and you run it like:

python getnarrative.py http://somewebsite.com/myfamily/ > import.csv

Then, in GRAMPS you should be able to import the file "import.csv" into a
blank database.

If you (or any one else) fix up the script, please share it back with us.

Good luck,

-Doug

dsblank wrote:
> 
> Matt Anderson wrote:
>> Unfortunetally, I destroyed the partition, not just rm'ed one file.
>> Thankfully my webserver is far away and I'm smart enough to not
>> reinstall that on a whim.
>> 
>> I know all the information isn't in the exported website, but the
>> relationships are, the locations are, and some of the birthdays are.
>> Also the pictures are associated with the people already, that's all the
>> stuff I'm hoping to save.  I don't suppose this is something that could
>> be done up in a simple script and a Berkeley db module?
>> 
>> -matt
> 
> Your data could be retrieved from the website, but you don't need to go 
> down to the level of a particular database. Perhaps the easiest way 
> might be to work the data into a CSV (comma separated values) file and 
> do an import into a new GRAMPS database. See:
> 
> http://emergent.brynmawr.edu/emergent/GrampsCSVImport
> 
> Is your website public? I'd be glad to take a look at see what a Python 
> script might look like.
> 
> -Doug
> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 04:57:28PM +0100, Benny Malengier wrote:
>>> If you used a recent version of gramps, the directory with your grdb
>>> contains a file with .backup extension.
>>> You can open that then.
>>> Otherwise, I think everything is gone.
>>> If you read:
>>> http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Recover_corrupted_grdb
>>> you see that loosing the environment is recoverable, but loosing the
>>> database is, for obvious reasons, not.
>>>
>>> Benny
>>>
>>> 2007/11/26, Matt Anderson <mra <at> malloc.org>:
>>>> I did at least two dumb things this past holiday weekend.  One was
>>>> delete my grdb file, the other was to not have a back-up of it.
>>>> Thankfully I still have it all exported to a website, so no one can
>>>> tell
>>>> that its all gone, but I'd really rather not load that all in by hand
>>>> again if I don't have to.  Is there anyway to re-create a gramps
>>>> database from a gramps exported website?
>>>>
>>>> -matt
>>>>
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