Obsidian Vault to Hugo Content

Lightweight, zero-dependency CLI written in Python to help us publish obsidian notes with hugo.

It only takes two arguments: The obsidian vault directory (--obsidian-vault-dir) and the hugo content directory (--hugo-content-dir).

python -m obsidian_to_hugo --obsidian-vault-dir=<path> --hugo-content-dir=<path>

It takes care of the following steps:

• Clears hugo content directory (directory will be deleted and recreated)
• Copies obsidian vault contents into hugo content directory (.obsidian gets removed immediately after copying)
• Replaces obsidian wiki links ([[wikilink]]) with hugo shortcode links ([wikilink]({{< ref "wikilink" >}}))

Replacement examples

Obsidian	Hugo
[[/some/wiki/link]]	[/some/wiki/link]({{< ref "/some/wiki/link" >}})
[[/some/wiki/link|Some text]]	[Some text]({{< ref "/some/wiki/link" >}})
[[/some/wiki/link/_index]]	[/some/wiki/link/]({{< ref "/some/wiki/link/" >}})
[[/some/wiki/link#Some Heading|Some Heading Link]]	[Some Heading Link]({{< ref "/some/wiki/link#some-heading" >}})

NOTE: For now, there is no way to escape obsidian wiki links. Every link will be replaced with a hugo link. The only way to get around this is changing the wiki link to don't match the exact sytax, for example by adding an invisible space (Obsidian will highlight the invisible character as a red dot). However, this still is really really not best practice, so if anyone wants to implement real escaping, please do so.

Installation

pip install obsidian-to-hugo

Usage

usage: __main__.py [-h] [--hugo-content-dir HUGO_CONTENT_DIR] [--obsidian-vault-dir OBSIDIAN_VAULT_DIR]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --hugo-content-dir HUGO_CONTENT_DIR
                        Directory of your Hugo content directory, the obsidian notes should be processed into.
  --obsidian-vault-dir OBSIDIAN_VAULT_DIR
                        Directory of the Obsidian vault, the notes should be processed from.