OurBigBookRead tiles from stdin line by line on a while loop and output IDs to stdout only, performing automatic ID from title conversion on each input line.
Sample usage:
outputs:
each with one second intervals between each line.
( echo 'Hello world'; sleep 1; echo 'C++ is great'; sleep 1; echo 'β Centauri' ) | ourbigbook --title-to-idhello-world
c-plus-plus-is-great
beta-centauriThe original application of this option was to allow external non Node.js processes to be able to accurately calculate IDs from human readable titles since the non-ASCII handling of the algorithm is complex, and hard to reimplement accurately.
From Python for example one may run something like:
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, STDOUT
import time
p = Popen(['ourbigbook', '--title-to-id'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE)
p.stdin.write('Hello world\n'.encode())
p.stdin.flush()
print(p.stdout.readline().decode()[:-1])
time.sleep(1)
p.stdin.write('bonne journeé\n'.encode())
p.stdin.flush()
print(p.stdout.readline().decode()[:-1])