Setting date attributes

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Is there a way to get at and modify a note's date attributes?

I'm migrating a large body of material to Trilium from various sources and I'd like to keep the Created date unchanged. I can think of scenarios where that's a bad idea, so I'd be okay with a date_published or similar property (that could later be used to sort blog entries for example).

[maphew]

Research:

woofiegrrl: I have found instructions for modifying the note creation date through the API here
From < https://www.reddit.com/r/Trilium/comments/1aritj9/modifying_note_creation_date/>

zadam: I've added the possibility to specify dateCreated and utcDateCreated to the ETAPI. The modification date is still generated automatically.
From < https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/4199>

justyns: I ended up writing a backend script to convert label attributes to created/updated timestamps after the notes are created: https://github.com/justyns/trilium-scripts/blob/master/joplin-import-helpers/joplin-convert-attribute-to-ctime.js
From < https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/4199>

I tried using trilium-py module to modify dateCreated per zadam above but it breaks with unrecognized keyword. I suspect it needs to be added to https://github.com/Nriver/trilium-py/blob/816b4d5b52207994cb275534e59fcd48a963e5fe/src/trilium_py/client.py#L345 or the adjacent ea.patch_attribute. I'll open an issue and PR there if I get something working.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "A:\code\metril\patch-date-from-content.py", line 93, in <module>
    ea.patch_note(x, dateCreated=content_date)
TypeError: ETAPI.patch_note() got an unexpected keyword argument 'dateCreated'

[maphew]

As of v0.9.8 trilium-py can modify date attributes, per Nriver/trilium-py#43.

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