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?
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?
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.
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/sql
API endpoint to get details of the block-id
by making a query like:
{ "stmt": "SELECT * FROM blocks WHERE id='block-id'" }
In the query result, you can find the hpath
key whose value is a human readable path.
siyuan://blocks/block-id
with hpath_value.md which would be the relative path to the exported markdown file that the link points to.hpath
for 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, the siyuan://blocks/block-id
in the exported markdown file can be replaced by hpath_value.md#block-id
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?
I think the issue remains with anchor hash
for the reason that it is limited to notebook currently, meaning I cannot select rendering from Markdown to HTML from the notebook_ex > export > (selectable=Markdown/siyuan.sy.zip)
.
How would i export my notes to HTML with anchor hash
? I think I would be limited to using pandoc input.md -o output.html
, I tried it with pandoc, which succesfully creates html with link to other note, but it just opens the other note without navigation to the <span>
block, so no hash jump in browser (brave/firefox) to block.
In theory, programs that support standard Markdown (CommonMark) should be able to support parsing and rendering inline HTML elements, that is, <span>
, but they may not necessarily support anchor hash jumps. After rendering from Markdown to HTML, the browser can support anchor hash jumping, so currently, exporting references as anchor hashs is the optimal solution.
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