I exported a notebook to markdown (which is great), but I found that the files don't have links to other files like they were in Siyuan.
So, is there anyway to make markdown exports have links to other files?
Is it possible for markdown export to link to other files?
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Siysuy •
I appreciate your resonse, but it is not only for complete batch export for users to turn away from siyuan, but rather for collaborative reasons and to publish notes. Users of Siyuan can collaborate and share specific notes.
I just want a guide on how to use
anchor hash. How would I proceed after I used the feature after export, so postanchor hash. I do not quite understand what to do with the new file after export.1 Reply -
sagar • • 2VIP Warrior
I think there is a fairly simple solution to this, which I will describe below. I think it can be implemented as a simple Python script that does some post-processing of the exported markdown files. I will try to create a proof-of-concept script, but it will take me a few days because I am not a programmer and will need to learn some Python programming first.
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In Settings > Export configure 'Ref' to 'Anchor text with block URL'. After doing this, a link to another block in a SiYuan note appears in the exported Markdown file as
[Anchor text](siyuan://blocks/block-id). -
Write a Python script that opens each exported markdown file and uses regex matching to identify all instances of
[Anchor text](siyuan://blocks/block-id). For each instance, -
Use the
/api/query/sqlAPI endpoint to get details of theblock-idby making a query like:{ "stmt": "SELECT * FROM blocks WHERE id='block-id'" } -
In the query result, you can find the
hpathkey whose value is a human readable path.- If the block-id is for a block of type document (which would be the case for a link to another document), then the Python script just needs to replace
siyuan://blocks/block-idwith hpath_value.md which would be the relative path to the exported markdown file that the link points to. - If the block-id is for a block inside a document (e.g. to some arbitrary paragraph block in the document), all you need to do is to open the exported markdown document containing that paragraph (from the value of
hpathfor that block-id), find the start of the paragraph and add an<a name="block-id"></a>anchor at the start of the paragraph. Then, thesiyuan://blocks/block-idin the exported markdown file can be replaced byhpath_value.md#block-id
- If the block-id is for a block of type document (which would be the case for a link to another document), then the Python script just needs to replace
This would basically solve the problem of having correct links in the exported markdown files and additionally the exported notes can easily be converted to HTML and published e.g. with a static site generator like Hugo.
@88250 Do you see any problems with this approach? I don't understand why SiYuan does not do this already when exporting to markdown.. but in any case, a Python script that does the above can post-process the exported markdown files from SiYuan and fix all the links. What do you think?
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