Obsidian Wikipedia Paste Utils

This is an Obsidian plugin that helps with pasting text from Wikipedia into Obsidian format.

Warning

This plugin is still in development so expect bugs and incomplete functionality.

Getting Started

• Clone this repo to a local development folder. For convenience, you can place this folder in your .obsidian/plugins/obsidian-wikipedia-paste-utils folder.
• Install NodeJS, then run npm i in the command line under your repo folder.
• Run npm run dev to compile your plugin from src/main.ts to main.js.
• Make changes to src/main.ts (or create new .ts files). Those changes should be automatically compiled into main.js.
• Reload Obsidian to load the new version of your plugin.
• Enable plugin in settings window.
• For updates to the Obsidian API run npm update in the command line under your repo folder.

Installing the Plugin

Note

I am planning to release this plugin on community plugins page from version 1.0.0 so for now, you can install this plugin manually by following the step below.

• Copy over main.js, styles.css, manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-wikipedia-paste-utils/.

Contributing

Contributions are welcomed! You can make contributions to this plugin by either opening a pull request or an issue.