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Use for managing Obsidian vaults from the CLI.
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| name | obsidian-cli |
| description | Use for managing Obsidian vaults from the CLI. |
Use the obsidian-cli CLI to interact with a running Obsidian instance. Requires Obsidian to be open.
Run obsidian-cli help to see all available commands. This is always up to date. Full docs: https://help.obsidian.md/cli
Parameters take a value with =. Quote values with spaces:
obsidian-cli create name="My Note" content="Hello world"
Flags are boolean switches with no value:
obsidian-cli create name="My Note" silent overwrite
For multiline content use \n for newline and \t for tab.
Many commands accept file or path to target a file. Without either, the active file is used.
file=<name> — resolves like a wikilink (name only, no path or extension needed)path=<path> — exact path from vault root, e.g. folder/note.mdCommands target the most recently focused vault by default. Use vault=<name> as the first parameter to target a specific vault:
obsidian-cli vault="My Vault" search query="test"
obsidian-cli read file="My Note"
obsidian-cli create name="New Note" content="# Hello" template="Template" silent
obsidian-cli append file="My Note" content="New line"
obsidian-cli search query="search term" limit=10
obsidian-cli daily:read
obsidian-cli daily:append content="- [ ] New task"
obsidian-cli property:set name="status" value="done" file="My Note"
obsidian-cli tasks daily todo
obsidian-cli tags sort=count counts
obsidian-cli backlinks file="My Note"
Use --copy on any command to copy output to clipboard. Use silent to prevent files from opening. Use total on list commands to get a count.
After making code changes to a plugin or theme, follow this workflow:
obsidian-cli plugin:reload id=my-plugin
obsidian-cli dev:errors
obsidian-cli dev:screenshot path=screenshot.png
obsidian-cli dev:dom selector=".workspace-leaf" text
obsidian-cli dev:console level=error
Run JavaScript in the app context:
obsidian-cli eval code="app.vault.getFiles().length"
Inspect CSS values:
obsidian-cli dev:css selector=".workspace-leaf" prop=background-color
Toggle mobile emulation:
obsidian-cli dev:mobile on
Run obsidian-cli help to see additional developer commands including CDP and debugger controls.
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