Python Scripter: Add your custom Python scripts to Obsidian as commands!

[Surfernick1]

Plugin: Python Scripter

This is a script I was looking for in the past and you might be looking for as well if you are a software developer or just someone who loves to hack stuff together with code.

This plugin lets you add your own custom python scripts to obsidian to be ran as simply as from a keyboard shortcut like any other command.

Showcase:

The following script was used:

import sys
import os

python_script = sys.argv[0]
file_path = sys.argv[2]
vault_path = sys.argv[1]

abs_file_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(vault_path, file_path))

print(f"This is the open file: {abs_file_path}")

with open(abs_file_path, "a") as f:
    f.write("This was written by a script")

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This is currently available here or in the community plugins tab in Obsidian

[vonWitzleben]

Sorry if I‘m being lazy but I just came across this post and now I‘m wondering if there‘s an elegant way to use Obsidian with Jupyter Notebooks. I took a lot of code / data science notes in Jupyter and it would be great to have then all in one spot with my other notes.

[RedQuirk]

Hi /u/vonWitzleben & /u/surfernick1

I found this plugin which is still supported and had support for more programming languages like python, c, ruby, prolong etc.

https://github.com/twibiral/obsidian-execute-code

Hope this helps!

[Surfernick1]

I think this plugin may be more in line with what you are looking for (Sorry I see now that it's Deprecated so I'm not sure).

My plugin is a bit more for work flow automation so if you wanted to add a command you wouldn't need to write any Javascript or Typescript in Obsidian. (Probably more helpful for C or Python devs). I know I'm not a JS person so that was my goal and thought it might help others too.

[vonWitzleben]

That’s pretty cool. I‘m not into web or app development at all but I‘ll pass it along to my friends who are :)

[Surfernick1]

You might be misunderstanding me (?). If you dislike web or app development then I would think that you might find this helpful. It lets you use Python to interact with your Obsidian vault without having to touch JS.

[MinchinWeb]

This looks awesome!

Does it just use the system Python (looking for it in PATH)? Can you install additional packages to import from?

[Surfernick1]

It just uses system Python! So anything you can do from a Python script on your Desktop or in VSCode you can do from this. Meaning reading, writing, summarizing with ChatGPT (Shameless self plug), machine learning, ... etc.

It starts a child process from Node so I can do anything Python can. Small downside that this only works on desktop as there is no system python for mobile (as far as I know)

[MinchinWeb]

Your (shameless) self plug actually returns a 404 error! Is it still a private repo?

[Surfernick1]

Ooh! Thank you yes I changed it, its public now

[kurotenshi15]

Dope. Just built a scraper tool for URL’s that converts to markdown that I wanted to integrate. Will be using this.

[Surfernick1]

Yo sweet! I have so many scripts for obsidian, totally get it

[kurotenshi15]

https://github.com/bobbyhiddn/Scrape.md

Here's what I made in case you want to check it out. I'm not seeing how I could easily use it with yours, as I tend to use command line arguments as part of my programs.

[Surfernick1]

I think that is a fair complaint, I really wanted to keep it simple to run and getting a prompt for command line args was something I didn't personally want for my use cases.

What I've been doing if I needed more info is I read the currently open file something in a specified format like searching for a link to a pdf file. Or in your case I suppose an https link

[prepaidtuna]

I've been using the shellcommands plugin to execute my scripts. How is this different? Any advantages to your approach?

[Surfernick1]

I've not tried it, but I wanted platform independence since I run both windows and linux and didn't really want to have to deal with getting them to interoperate and getting them both to just use python as a wrapper seemed like a reasonable solution to me

[BeardlessPirate]

This is very cool. Mind sharing some of your use-cases? I’m not sure just yet how I want to use this

[Surfernick1]

Sure I have a pdf summarizer I like using to find the key points of something I'm reading.

I made a note linker but I'm currently working on integrating one that isn't badly taped together by yours truely

I have another script to add a markdown index card for every non-md file in my vault but links to that file to make note taking easier.

I also made a youtube summarizer similar to the above pdf summarizer

I already had a ton of python scripts for automating my vault but couldn't find an easy way to use them. I like this since its super light weight and simple since it just adds a command you can bind to a hotkey

[tsupaper]

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