title: CommandLineInterface
modifier: JeremyRuston

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

Usage:
{{{
node tiddlywiki.js <options>
}}}
The command line options are processed sequentially from left to right. Processing pauses during long operations, like loading a [[recipe file|RecipeFiles]] and all the subrecipes and [[tiddlers|TiddlerFiles]] that it references. The following options are available:
|{{{--recipe <filepath>}}} |Loads a specfied `.recipe` file |
|{{{--load <filepath>}}} |Load additional tiddlers from TiddlyWiki files ({{{.html}}}), {{{.tiddler}}}, {{{.tid}}}, {{{.json}}} or other files |
|{{{--savewiki <dirpath>}}} |Saves all the loaded tiddlers as a single file TiddlyWiki called {{{index.html}}} and an RSS feed called {{{index.xml}}} |
|{{{--savetiddler <title> <filename> [<type>]}}} |Save an individual tiddler as a specified MIME type, defaults to `text/html` |
|{{{--savetiddlers <outdir>}}} |Saves all the loaded tiddlers as {{{.tid}}} files in the specified directory |
|{{{--servewiki <port>}}} |Serve the cooked TiddlyWiki over HTTP at {{{/}}} |
|{{{--servetiddlers <port>}}} |Serve individual tiddlers over HTTP at {{{/tiddlertitle}}} |
|{{{--wikitest <dir>}}} |Run wikification tests against the tiddlers in the given directory |
|{{{--dumpstore}}} |Dump the TiddlyWiki store in JSON format |
|{{{--dumprecipe}}} |Dump the current recipe in JSON format |
|{{{--verbose}}} |verbose output, useful for debugging |
!! Examples
This example loads the tiddlers from a TiddlyWiki HTML file and makes them available over HTTP:
{{{
node tiddlywiki.js --load mywiki.html --servewiki 127.0.0.1:8000
}}}
This example cooks a TiddlyWiki from a recipe:
{{{
node tiddlywiki.js --recipe tiddlywiki.com/index.recipe --savewiki tmp/
}}}
This example ginsus a TiddlyWiki into its constituent tiddlers:
{{{
node tiddlywiki.js --load mywiki.html --savetiddlers tmp/tiddlers
}}}
!! Notes
{{{--servewiki}}} and {{{--servertiddlers}}} are for different purposes and should not be used together. The former is for TiddlyWiki core developers who want to be able to edit the TiddlyWiki source files in a text editor and view the results in the browser by clicking refresh; it is slow because it reloads all the TiddlyWiki JavaScript files each time the page is loaded. The latter is for experimenting with the new wikification engine.

`--wikitest` looks for `*.tid` files in the specified folder. It then wikifies the tiddlers to both "text/plain" and "text/html" format and checks the results against the content of the `*.html` and `*.txt` files in the same directory.