NAME

wpgrep - Search through a WordPress database directly

SYNOPSIS

        # search by SQL pattern
        % wpgrep --host ... --user ... --like '%Amelia%'

        # search by Perl pattern
        % wpgrep --host ... --user ... --regex '\bAmelia(?!Foo)'

        # search by arbitrary code
        % wpgrep --host ... --user ... --code Some::Module::subroutine

        # or combine them
        % wpgrep --host ... --user ... --like '%Amelia%' \
                --regex '\bAmelia(?!Foo)' --code Some::Module::subroutine

        # include the categories or tags
        % wpgrep  ... --categories
        % wpgrep  ... --tags

        # specify a template for the results
        % wpgrep ... --template '%T'
        

DESCRIPTION

I wanted a tool for complex searches of WordPress posts in my own installations. This is it. I can search by an SQL pattern, a Perl regular expression, or a any code I care to run on the values.

If you specify --like, it limits the returned rows to those whose post_title or post_content match that argument.

If you specify --categories or --tags, the returned rows are annotated with relationship information. The categories and tags keys have array reference values with lists of term names. The terms keys is a hash with more term information. Dump it and inspect it if you want to play with it. Furthermore, the returned rows are reduced to the rows that have the specified categories if you give those options values.

If you specify --regex, it filters the returned rows to those whose post_title or post_content satisfy the regular expression.

If you specify --code, it filters the returned rows to those for which the subroutine reference returns true. The coderef gets a hash reference of the current row. It's up to you to decide what to do with it.

These filters are consecutive. You can specify any combination of them but they always happen in that order. The --regex only gets the rows that satisfied the --like, and the --code only gets the rows that satisfied --like and --regex.

Options

• -c, --code

  The fully-qualified name (e.g. Some::Module::subroutine) of a subroutine to run on each record. The program loads that module for you.

  Be careful! This allows someone to run any code they like (and that's the point)!

• --category

  With no value, each returned row has category and tag information added to it.

  With a category names, the returned rows are reduced to those having that category. No parent relationships are examined.

  You may specify this multiple times. Any row having any of the specified categories is returned. If you specify --categories_and, each row must have all of the categories.

• --categories_and

  If you specify --categories_and, each row must have all of the categories.

• -d, --db, --database

  The database name. This is the DB_NAME in your wp-config.php.

• -h, --host

  The database host. This defaults to localhost.

• -l, --like

  An SQL pattern suitable for a LIKE argument. The regex applies to the post_title and post_content.

  See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/pattern-matching.html

• -p, --password

  The database password associated with the user and the source machine, if you need that.

• --port

  The MySQL port, if you aren't using the default.

• -r, --regex

  A Perl regex used to filter the results. The regex applies to the post_title and post_content.

• --tags

  With no value, each returned row has category and tag information added to it.

  With a tag name, the returned rows are reduced to those having that tag.

  You may specify this multiple times. Any row having any of the specified tags is returned. If you specify --tags_and, each row must have all of the categories.

• --tags_and

  If you specify --tags_and, each row must have all of the tags.

• --template

  Specify the sprintf-style template to format the row.

• -u, --user

  The MySQL user. You might want to set up a special read-only user for this tool.

Template

Most template items map directly onto the columns from wp_posts.

• %A post_password

• %a post_author

• %C comment_count

• %c post_content

• %D post_modified

• %d post_date

• %e post_excerpt

• %f post_content_filtered

• %G post_modified_gmt

• %g post_date_gmt

• %i ID

• %K categories

• %k tags

• %m post_mime_type

• %n post_name

• %o menu_order

• %P ping_status

• %p post_parent

• %R newline

• %S comment_status

• %s post_status

• %T post_type

• %t post_title

• %U guid

• %Z pinged

• %z to_ping

TO DO

SEE ALSO

WordPress::API

SOURCE AVAILABILITY

This source is in Github:

        http://github.com/briandfoy/wordpress-grep/

AUTHOR

brian d foy, <bdfoy@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2013, brian d foy, All Rights Reserved.

You may redistribute this under the same terms as Perl itself.