Add option to start from a specific ticket or point in history

[e-ed]

I am trying to export 8 ish years worth of tickets and files, sometimes pivotal returns code 500 for some reason and the whole process of exporting data to a db fails.

Would it be possible to add an option so I can pick and choose a specific ticket or point in time to start from, instead of just redoing the whole process?

Thanks! @schpet

[schpet]

@e-ed i'm pleased to learn someone other than me has a use for this thing. sorry it's not going that smoothly!

what you're describing sounds viable, but would probably involve a number of changes. you might find that tweaking the retry logic here

storyexporter/src/tracker.ts

Line 18 in 41a5e3b

retries: 5,

it uses https://www.npmjs.com/package/fetch-retry and might need some additional config to properly retry, e.g.

retryOn: [429, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504],

so i would recommend starting there.

i'm no longer using this tool, and will not be making changes, but it's here to fork and i wish you good luck!

[e-ed]

Interestingly enough, a few months ago I tried the tool from another computer (on a wifi network) and it ran without issues until the end, so I was able to get the data I needed. Thank you so much!