[mfarragher]

Hi all,

I've made a new Python package - obsidiantools - for getting structured metadata about your Obsidian.md notes and analysing your vault. Complement your Obsidian workflows by getting metrics and detail about all your notes in one place through the widely-used Python data stack.

Check out the Github page for more detail about the API and its usage. There's a link to the 'obsidiantools in 10 minutes' demo, which is set up in a virtual machine through Binder, so you can interact with the code for the demo there!

Very little code is needed to analyse a vault. What I find really great is the ability to do sophisticated analytics through the integration with NetworkX graphs. In my demo I've applied the PageRank algorithm to the vault - analysis of backlink quality is just one example of how graph analytics can complement your knowledge management workflows, especially on larger vaults.

I go into more detail on future development, screenshots and more in this Obsidian community topic: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidiantools-python-package-for...

In practice this should work for Zettelkasten vault formats - the API has worked OK for one of my vaults where I had dates/years with hyphens and I think it would handle the default 12-digit note names.