Exporting Boards

This article details the process of importing/exporting boards to/from a BBS node.

Note that the import/export feature between bbsnode v4.x and v5.x versions are incompatible.

For v4.x

Exporting

For v4.x, interactions with the node is fully done via http, at the port provided by the flag -http-port of the bbsnode executable. If this flag is not set, then it is 7410 by default.

The export endpoint is at 127.0.0.1:{http-port}/api/admin/board/export with the following form-data values:

Key	Value (examples)	Description
board_public_key	033fe5d17813a7f55a825772e9b3050096f3fc5d4d71737d6b869410e7a970a0a4	Public key of the board to export.
file_name	exported_board_1	Name of the file to export board to.

This endpoint can easily be called using the following executable: https://github.com/skycoin/bbs/tree/master/cmd/v4export .

Note that exported boards are stored in {config-dir}/exports with the file extension .export , where {config-dir} is determined by the flag -config-dir. By default, {config-dir} is set as $HOME/.skybbs.

Exported files as in json format similar to the following example:

{
    "root": {
        "root_type": "board",
        "root_revision": 0,
        "deleted": false,
        "summary": {
            "name": "",
            "body": "",
            "created": 0,
            "tags": null
        }
    },
    "board": {
        "board": {
            "name": "Test Board",
            "body": "this is a test board.",
            "created": 1512960762418740526,
            "tags": null
        },
        "threads": [
            {
                "thread": {
                    "name": "Thread 1",
                    "body": "This is thread 1.",
                    "created": 1512961769187381691,
                    "creator": "02c17adefa128e7c9ea01e47cea34f599b519c191a57bf27bc0097758bcb289bef"
                },
                "posts": [
                    {
                        "of_post": "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
                        "name": "Hello!",
                        "body": "\u003cp\u003eHello on thread 1.\u003c/p\u003e",
                        "created": 1512961808330971676,
                        "creator": "02c17adefa128e7c9ea01e47cea34f599b519c191a57bf27bc0097758bcb289bef"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}