obsidian-utils

Command line tools to help obsidian stuff

Working steps

1. Select location point
2. Select date & edit time
3. Fetch weather data
4. Edit the title & slug
5. Confirm the frontmatter generated
6. Submit the data, then you can see the dir & md file generated

Preparation

Need to install LocateMe first:

$ brew update --verbose && brew install locateme

Use it once: $ locateme, and you will get the error:

2021-08-31 10:47:01.299 locateme[32912:640457] [error code] != kCLErrorLocationUnknown: Error Domain=kCLErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"
2021-08-31 10:47:01.299 locateme[32912:640457] Error: Error Domain=kCLErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)"

Go to security setting panel, give the location access to locateme, then it should be working correctly:

$ locateme -f "{\"lat\":\"{LAT}\",\"lon\":\"{LON}\"}"

{"lat":"XX.234463","lon":"XXX.482957"}

This tool is using:

• amap 高德地图 as the location service
• nowapi as the weather service

You will need to prepare:

• Go to the console of amap 高德地图 to generate two keys:
  • amapWebKey: Web服务 ; used to call restful apis
  • amapJsKey: Web端（JS API）; used to fetch location in embedded web component
• Go to the console of nowapi to get:
  • nowapiAppKey: appkey ; used to call api
  • nowapiSign: sign ; used to call api

How to use

Write a config file obsidian_utils_config.yaml, it's recommended to be put in your obsidian vault dir. It's content:

amapJsKey: "..."
amapWebKey: "..."
nowapiAppKey: "..."
nowapiSign: "..."

$ obsidian-utils -d ~/Downloads/your/vault -c ~/Downloads/your/vault/obsidian_utils_config.yaml -a util
$ # OR
$ obsidian-utils -d ~/Downloads/your/vault -a index

Others

obsidian-utils help:

$ obsidian-utils -h
Usage: obsidian-utils [options]

Obsidian utility, help to generate frontmatter, etc

Options:
  -V, --version            output the version number
  -a, --action <string>    which action will be executed: util | diary | index
  -t, --datetime <string>  the datetime of the document to be created, format:
                           'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'
  -d, --dest <dir>         directory of output destination
  -c, --config <path>      file path of the config yaml, example could be find at:
                           ${source_root}/config.example.yaml; required if action is
                           "util | diray"
  -h, --help               display help for command