created: 20131219100520659
modified: 20140617212408196
tags: howto
title: Using TiddlyWiki on Node.js
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki

TiddlyWiki5 can be used on the command line to perform an extensive set of operations based on TiddlyWikiFolders, TiddlerFiles and TiddlyWikiFiles.

For example, the following command loads the tiddlers from a TiddlyWiki HTML file and then saves one of them in static HTML:

```
tiddlywiki --verbose --load mywiki.html --rendertiddler ReadMe ./readme.html
```

Running `tiddlywiki` from the command line boots the TiddlyWiki kernel, loads the core plugins and establishes an empty wiki store. It then sequentially processes the command line arguments from left to right. The arguments are separated with spaces.

The first argument is the optional path to the [[TiddlyWikiFolder|TiddlyWikiFolders]] to be loaded. If not present, then the current directory is used.

The commands and their individual arguments follow, each command being identified by the prefix `--`.

```
tiddlywiki [<wikipath>] [--<command> [<arg>[,<arg>]]]
```

The available commands are:

<ul><$list filter="[tag[command]]"><li><$link to={{!!title}}><$view field="title"/></$link></li></$list></ul>

See also:

* [[Environment Variables on Node.js]]