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

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 --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)!

• -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.

• -u, --user

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

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.