User Plugins for Obsidian

User Plugins is a simple plugin that lets you use Obsidian plugin API in your snippets or javascript files to modify the behaviour of Obsidian just as if you created a plugin, but without the hassle.

Stop and read

:warning: This plugin is for advanced users only: DO NOT use code in scripts you do not fully understand. It can delete your notes or worse. See legal notice.

Use cases

• adding custom commands
• testing an idea for a plugin
• using plugin API to do anything you want

Motivating example

Add command Create new note in given folder that allows you to choose a folder before creating a note.

module.exports = {}

module.exports.onload = async (plugin) => {
  const MarkdownView = plugin.passedModules.obsidian.MarkdownView
  plugin.addCommand({
    id: 'new-note-in-folder',
    name: 'Create new note in a folder',
    callback: async () => {
      const folders = plugin.app.vault.getAllLoadedFiles().filter(i => i.children).map(folder => folder.path);
      const folder = await plugin.helpers.suggest(folders, folders);
      const created_note = await plugin.app.vault.create(folder + "/Untitled.md", "")
      const active_leaf = plugin.app.workspace.activeLeaf;
      if (!active_leaf) {
        return;
      }
      await active_leaf.openFile(created_note, {
        state: { mode: "source" },
      });
      plugin.app.workspace.trigger("create",created_note)
      const view = app.workspace.getActiveViewOfType(MarkdownView);
      if (view) {
        const editor = view.editor;
        editor.focus()
      }
    }
  });
}

Quick start

Installation

~This plugin is not yet available in the Community Plugins panel.~

You can easily add this plugin from Community Plugins panel. Alternatively, here's a manual way:

git clone this repo to <YOUR VAULT>/.obsidian/plugins folder and then execute:

npm install
npm run build

Usage

Scripts can be added either by manually adding snippets or enabling each individual file in a scripts directory in a vault. Scripts have access to a Plugin object. Its API is declared here. plugin has two additional members:

• helpers

  Currently it has a single method that opens a suggester modal:

  suggest<T>(
      textItems: string[] | ((item: T) => string),
      items: T[],
      placeholder?: string,
      limit?: number
  )
  

• passedModules

  Currently only gives access to the obsidian module

Snippet

A snippet is just a javascript block of code that has access to a plugin variable. It is executed in the onload method of the plugin. Example:

plugin.addCommand({
    name: 'FooBar',
    callback: () => {
        console.log('foobar');
    }
});

Script file

A script file follows CommonJS module specification and exports at least onload function that takes a single argument plugin as an input. You must specify onload function in th exported module and you can also specify onunload if needed.

To use scripts specify scripts folder in settings, hit the reload button to search for scripts in the specified path and then enable each found script using a toggle button.

Example:

module.exports = {}
module.exports.onload = function(plugin) {
    plugin.addCommand({
        name: 'FooBar',
        callback: () => {
            console.log('foobar');
        }
    });
}
module.exports.onunload = function(plugin) {
    console.log('unload')
}

Notice

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.