CouchDB Wedge

CLI and node module for doing bulk operations like deleting all databases on a server or replicating all databases from one server to another.

Install

npm install -g couchdb-wedge

Wedge is a command that consists of many other sub-commands, see below.

 λ wedge --help

  Usage: wedge [options] [command]


  Commands:

    replicate-all-dbs   replicate all databases from one couchdb to another
    delete-all-dbs      delete all databases on a couchdb
    pre-warm-views      Hit all views in a couchdb to pre-warm them
    pull-json           Pull documents from a View in CouchDB returning just an array of the documents, not additional metadata that CouchDB usually does.
    push-json           Push an array of documents to a CouchDB database. Accepts STDIN over a pipe.
    help [cmd]          display help for [cmd]

  Options:

    -h, --help     output usage information
    -V, --version  output the version number

Example of a pull replication of all databases except for _replicator and resources

wedge replicate-all-dbs --worker https://username:password@serverb.cloudant.com --target https://username:password@serverb.example.com --source https://username:password@servera.example.com --exclude _replicator,resources

Example of deleting all databases on a server except for _replicator and _users

wedge delete-all-dbs --target http://username:password@server.example.com --exclude _replicator,_users

This command has a prompt asking the user to confirm the action.

Example of pre-warming CouchDB view cache, which forces generation of index for all databases on the couch server.

wedge pre-warm-views --target http://username:password@target-server.org

This command has a prompt asking the user to confirm the action.

Develop

Get the code and set your own wedge command to resolve to that codebase.

git clone git@github.com:rjsteinert/CouchDB-Wedge.git
cd CouchDB-Wedge
npm link