yafpa

This script is intended to be used with YAFPA, a free way to share your obsidian vault.

⚠️ The script and site are not a replacement for Obsidian Publish, which is a much more efficient way to share Obsidian files.

Get Started

• You first need to create a template using YAFPA-blog
• After, do pip install YAFPA

The first time you use the script, it will ask you three things :

• Your vault path (absolute path !)
• The path of the blog (absolute too !)
• The link of your blog, as https://my-awesome-blog.netlify.app/

You can reconfigure the path with yafpa --config

The file will be created in your site_package folder.

Script

usage: yafpa [-h] [--preserve | --update] [--filepath FILEPATH] [--git] [--keep] [--config]

Create file in folder, move image in assets, convert to relative path, add share support, and push to git

optional arguments:

• -h, --help: show this help message and exit
• --preserve, --p, --P : Don't delete file if already exist
• --update, --u, --U : force update : delete all file and reform.
• --filepath FILEPATH, --f FILEPATH, --F FILEPATH : Filepath of the file you want to convert
• --git, --g, --G : No commit and no push to git
• --keep, --k : Keep deleted file from vault and removed shared file
• --config, --c : Edit the config file

Checking differences

The script will convert all file with share:true and check if the contents are different to the versions in _notes. The only things that are ignored is the contents of the metadata. If you want absolutely change the metadata you can:

• Use yafpa --file <filepath> directly
• Use --u to force update all file
• Continue to work on the file before pushing it.
• Add a newline
• Manually delete the file
• Add or edit the metadata keys (unless date/title/created/update/link).

⚠️ As always with git, you can repost the exact same file that already exists on the server.

Limitations

⚠️ In case you have two files with the same name but :

• In different folder

• With different sharing status or folder The script will bug because The folder is not checked (It's not required). In this unique case, you need to rename one of the files.

• In the same way, in case you change the folder key in the metadata, you will have two identic file in different folder.

Options

Share all

yafpa and all yafpa option without --F FILEPATH will automatically read all file in your vault to check the share: true key in metadata (frontmatter YAML).

By default, the script will check the difference between line (cf checking difference), and convert only the file with difference. You can use --u to force update.

Share only a file

The command will be : yafpa --F filepath

The file to be shared does not need to contain share: true in its YAML, and will be updated no matter what.

How it works

The script :

• Moves file (with share: true frontmatter or specific file) in the _notes folder
• Moves image in assets/img and convert (with alt support)
• Converts highlight (==mark== to [[mark::highlight]])
• Converts "normal" writing to GFM markdown (adding \n each \n)
• Supports non existent file (adding a css for that 😉)
• Supports image flags css (Lithou snippet 🙏)
• Support normal and external files (convert "normal markdown link" to "wikilinks")
• Edit link to support transluction (if not embed: False)
• Remove block id (no support)
• Add CSS settings for inline tags (no link support) ; Tags are : class = .hash ; id = #tag_name (so you can style each tags you use)
• Frontmatter : Update the date if there is no date in frontmatter
• Frontmatter : In absence of title, add the file's title.
• Copy the link to your clipboard if one file is edited.
• ⭐ Admonition conversion to "callout inspired notion"
• Update the frontmatter in the original file, adding the link and change share to true if one file is shared.

Finally, the plugin will add, commit and push if supported.

Note : The clipboard may not work in your configuration. I have (and can) only test the script on IOS and Windows, so I use pyperclip and pasteboard to do that. If you are on MacOS, Linux, Android, please, check your configuration on your python and open an issue if it doesn't work. Note : I can't test on these 3 OSes, so I can't create a clipboard option on my own.

Custom CSS

You can add CSS using the file custom.css. The plugin Markdown Attribute allow to use the creation of inline css. Some information about this :

• You need to add : after the first {
• The inline IAL work only if there is stylized markdown. In absence, the text will be bolded.
• It won't work with highlight (removed automatically by the script)

⚠️ As I use CodeMirror Options and Contextual Typography, I warn you : the use of #tags to stylize the text before it doesn't work with my build. So, as an option to don't have a random tag in a text, you can use custom.css to remove it with display: none (you can have an example with #left).

Frontmatter settings

• share: true : Share the file
• embed: false : remove the transluction (convert to normal wikilinks)
• update: false : Don't update the file at all after the first push
• folder : Use a different folder than _note (here some more information) Alternatively, you can use the category key : category: folder/category
  • folder is optional ; as default : _notes
  • category can be false to prevent apparence in the feed NB : if category and folder is used at the same time, folder will be used as the folder.

Admonition

As admonition is very tricky, I choose to convert all admonition to a "callout Notion". The script will :

• Remove codeblock for admonition codeblocks
• Convert ```ad-``` to !!!ad-
• Bold title and add a IAL {: .title}

JavaScript will make all things nice.

⚠️ As always with markdown, you will see some problem with new paragraph inside admonition. You can use $~$ to fake line. The script will automatically add this. Also, you can add emoji on title to add some nice formatting.

Custom Admonition

You can now use custom admonition using the file custom_admonition.yml. The file is formated as a YAML :

admonition_type: #In obsidian
  - logo #emoji
  - admonition title: #the name you want in the website 

• Admonition name correspond to admonition type in the admonition plugin.
• Admonition title correspond to admonition title you use in the admonition plugin.

You need to create multiple key and value for each different synonyme you use (as in admonition...)

IOS Shortcuts

You need to found the path of your vault and the blog in your phone. To achieve that, I use a-shell.

First, in a-shell, run pickFolder and choose the folder of your vault, and rerun pickFolder to choose the folder where are the blog data (you need to clone with Working Copy) After, do showmarks and copy the two path in any note app. Check if the path is not broken because of the paste! You can also do :

cd 
showmarks > bookmark
vim bookmark

Here is a blank sheet to help you if you want to manually write / edit it :

vault=
blog_path=
blog=
share=

With :

• vault: Vault Absolute Path
• blog_path : Blog repository absolute path
• blog : Blog link
• share : your wanted share key ; by default : share

To use the shortcuts, you need :

• a-shell (Free)
• Working Copy

Before running the shortcuts, you need to install all requirements, aka :

pip install yafpa
yafpa --C

Links :

• Share All File
• Share One File

For the moment I can't create a shortcut to share only one file, BUT! You can use a-shell as you do in a normal terminal, aka :

jump <vault>
yafpa --f <file>

To run the script for all your file, run yafpa.

Note : Compared to pyto, the script cannot work with $HOME, so the .YAFPA-env will be created in the folder you use to run it. It is also possible to use multiple folder, but you need to create the file for each. The better is to have one in the vault ; and one in the default folder of a-shell.

Obsidian

→ Please use Wikilinks with "short links" (I BEG YOU) You can integrate the script within obsidian using the nice plugin Obsidian ShellCommands.

You could create two commands :

1. share all : yafpa
2. share one : yafpa --f {{file_path:absolute}}

You can use :

• Customizable Sidebar
• Obsidian Customizable Menu To have a button to share your file directly in Obsidian !

Template frontmatter

→ The • indicate that this value is optional

title: My files•
date: 12-11-2021•
embed: true•
update: true•
current: true•
flux: true•
share: false (this key can be changed in the configuration)
category: folder/category (category can be false)
description: my awesome file

You can use MetaEdit / Supercharged links to quickly update the front matter.

Exemple of frontmatter :

category: Roleplay/Application
date: 21-12-2021
share: true
tag: RP/Darkness-Haunted/Application/PC
title: (Darkness Haunted) Alwyn Kallendris

The file will be added in the Roleplay folder ; and the Application will now show the file in the sidebar, the Roleplay page and the collections page.