obyde

A minimal tool to convert a "standardly" configured Obsidian vault to a Jekyll or Hugo blog.

Installation

Install obyde using pip:

pip install git+https://github.com/khalednassar/obyde

Or using pipenv:

pipenv install git+https://github.com/khalednassar/obyde#egg=obyde

Caveat

obyde is mainly meant to support easy "default" Obsidian vault to Jekyll or Hugo blog conversions and it does so in an opinionated way. In order to create posts in an easy fashion, it requires that post filenames have a "post date", this is mainly to align with Jekyll, but it is also nice to use for Hugo. This is done by utilizing frontmatter in the Obsidian markdown notes, which means that each note must have a frontmatter section with at least a date key-value pair as such:

---
date: 2021-02-13

---

Additionally, currently only dates of the format YYYY-MM-DD are supported.

Usage

Copy the config.yaml.sample file and change the paths to align with your set up or copy this sample configuration:

vault:
        path: "/path/to/vault/root/" # Path to the Obsidian vault root. Markdown file discovery will start at this directory recursively.
        asset_path: "/path/to/vault/attachments/" # Path to the Obsidian vault attachments folder
        excluded_subdirectories: # Optional: list of excluded subdirectories of the Obsidian vault root
                - .trash
output:
        post_output_path: "/path/to/jekyll/_posts/" # Path to the Jekyll or Hugo posts directory
        asset_output_path: "/path/to/jekyll/assets/" # Path to the blog assets directory, copied from the Obsidian attachments folder
        relative_asset_path_prefix: "{{ site.blog_assets_location }}" # Optional: a relative URL prefix for blog assets without a trailing slash. Can also be a liquid template substitution for Jekyll.
        post_link_mode: "jekyll" # Optional, values can be either "jekyll" or "hugo" and the default is "jekyll". Sets the way post references are output.

Write your posts in the Obsidian vault then move the vault to the configured Jekyll or Hugo blog directory using

obyde -c <path to config.yaml>

Options

Regex-based find and replace transformations: (see PR #1) can be done through the frontmatter by specifying a find regex list and a corresponding replace string list of the same length. Each find regex will be compiled to search and replace matching instances with the string that is at the same index in the replace list.

For example, the following frontmatter configuraiton will replace every instance of foo with baz and every instance of bar and bak with qux:

---
find:
  - foo
  - ba(r|k)
replace:
  - baz
  - qux