Email-to-Obsidian-Sync
Purpose
This script paired with an IOS shortcut that sends a link to my email server when I find something lets me easily save content that I may find useful later. ETOS uses fabric to summarize and generates a markdown file that is then sent to the obsidian rest api.
Theres some crap missing here I still need to add
- Fabric Prompt
- Directions for REST API
- Obsidian Docker Container
- Directions for fetchmail setup
- IOS Shortcut
#!/bin/bash # Define log levels and output functions LOG_LEVEL=INFO MAX_LOG_LINES=1000 log_debug() { [ "$LOG_LEVEL" = "DEBUG" ] && echo "$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") - DEBUG: $@"; } log_info() { echo "$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") - INFO: $@"; } log_warn() { echo "$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") - WARN: $@" >&2; } log_error() { echo "$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") - ERROR: $@" >&2; } # Configuration for Obsidian REST API OBSIDIAN_API_URL="http://127.0.0.1:27123" OBSIDIAN_API_KEY="APIKEY" # Replace with your actual API key # Step 1: Add date and time stamp to the fetched email file name TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S") FETCHED_EMAIL_FILE="/home/etos/fetched_email_${TIMESTAMP}.txt" LOG_FILE="/var/log/etos_cron.log" touch $FETCHED_EMAIL_FILE # Add a visual separator log_info "-------------------------- $(date) --------------------------" # Log FETCH operation log_info "Fetching emails..." if [ "$LOG_LEVEL" = "DEBUG" ]; then fetchmail -v --mda "cat > $FETCHED_EMAIL_FILE" --keep --fetchlimit 1 # add --fetchall to get emails that have been fetched before else fetchmail -s --mda "cat > $FETCHED_EMAIL_FILE" --keep --fetchlimit 1 # add --fetchall to get emails that have been fetched before fi # Step 2: Extract the first URL from the email body EMAIL_URL=$(sed -n 's/.*\(http[s]:\/\/[^ ]*\).*/\1/p' "$FETCHED_EMAIL_FILE" | head -n 1) if [ "$LOG_LEVEL" = "DEBUG" ]; then log_debug "Extracted URL: $EMAIL_URL" fi # Step 3: Verify that the URL is not empty and is a valid URL format if [[ "$EMAIL_URL" =~ ^http[s]?:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\/?.*$ ]]; then # Log successful extraction log_info "Extracted URL: $EMAIL_URL" # Step 4: Use fabric to process the URL FABRIC_OUTPUT=$(mktemp) # Run the fabric command with the extracted URL /usr/local/bin/fabric --pattern explain_docs --output="$FABRIC_OUTPUT" --scrape_url="$EMAIL_URL" if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then log_error "Fabric execution failed!" rm "$FABRIC_OUTPUT" exit 1 else log_info "Fabric execution successful!" fi # Step 5: Extract the title for naming the note - only get the first line matching title pattern TITLE=$(head -n 10 "$FABRIC_OUTPUT" | grep -E '^(# |Title: )' | head -n 1 | sed -E 's/^# //;s/^Title: //') if [ -z "$TITLE" ]; then # If no title found, use a default name with timestamp TITLE="New_${TIMESTAMP}" log_debug "No title found in the first 10 lines of the file, using default: $TITLE" else # Clean up the title by removing unwanted characters TITLE=$(echo "$TITLE" | sed -E 's/^(# |Title: )//; s/[ ]+/_/g; s/[^[:alnum:]_.-]//g; s/__+/_/g') log_debug "Using extracted title: $TITLE" fi # Step 6: Prepare content for API TEMP_CONTENT_FILE=$(mktemp) echo -e "URL: $EMAIL_URL\n\n$(cat "$FABRIC_OUTPUT")" > "$TEMP_CONTENT_FILE" # Test API connectivity before making the call log_debug "Testing Obsidian API connectivity..." test_response=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" "${OBSIDIAN_API_URL}/") if [ "$test_response" = "200" ]; then log_debug "Obsidian API is accessible" else log_error "Obsidian API is not accessible, received code: $test_response" fi # URL encode the title for the API path ENCODED_TITLE=$(echo "$TITLE" | sed 's/ /%20/g') # Step 7: Send the content to Obsidian via REST API log_info "Sending content to Obsidian via REST API..." curl_output=$(curl -s -X PUT \ "${OBSIDIAN_API_URL}/vault/New/${ENCODED_TITLE}.md" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ${OBSIDIAN_API_KEY}" \ -H "Content-Type: text/markdown" \ --data-binary @"$TEMP_CONTENT_FILE" \ --write-out "%{http_code}" \ -o /dev/null) CURL_EXIT_CODE=$? HTTP_CODE=$curl_output if [ $CURL_EXIT_CODE -ne 0 ]; then log_error "Failed to send content to Obsidian API. CURL exit code: $CURL_EXIT_CODE" elif [ "$HTTP_CODE" -ge 400 ]; then log_error "Obsidian API returned error code: $HTTP_CODE" else log_info "Successfully sent content to Obsidian API. Note created: $TITLE.md" fi # Clean up temporary files rm "$TEMP_CONTENT_FILE" rm "$FABRIC_OUTPUT" else # Log invalid URL log_info "No valid URL found in the email: $EMAIL_URL or no new email." fi # Cleanup Home Directory log_info "Cleaning Home Directory" rm -rf /home/etos/fetched_email_*.txt log_info "Finished"