From a950eae69f4a9ddca3bee30b05ea3ed1c3d4a8ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Aedo <doc@aedo.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 14:18:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Initial commit

---
 .gitignore       |  1 +
 recover-notes.py | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 requirements.txt |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitignore
 create mode 100644 recover-notes.py
 create mode 100644 requirements.txt

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1269488
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+data
diff --git a/recover-notes.py b/recover-notes.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a1178a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recover-notes.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import os
+import re
+import sqlite3
+
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+# open connection to database
+conn = sqlite3.connect('notes-backup.db')
+cursor = conn.cursor()
+
+# execute query to fetch note data
+cursor.execute('SELECT title, body FROM notes')
+
+# save each note as a file
+for title, body in cursor:
+    # Remove any special characters that could cause problems in a Unix filename
+    safe_title = re.sub(r'[^\w_.)( -]', '', title)
+    filename = 'data/{}.txt'.format(safe_title)
+    with open(filename, 'w') as f:
+        Text = BeautifulSoup(body, 'html.parser').get_text()
+        PlainText = Text.encode('mac-roman').decode("utf-8")
+        f.write(PlainText)
+
+# close the database connection
+conn.close()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe67cbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bs4
+sqlite3