Obsidian Sync

Warning

This is an experimental proof of concept. It was written hastily without knowledge of the real internal mechanisms. Expect a thousand bugs and inefficiencies. This is an incomplete reproduction of the server. Many features aren't supported yet. I'm not responsible for any data loss or corruption. Use at your own risk.

Note

If you have the time and energy, feel free to help out with PRs or suggestions.

Why

I can't afford the subscription. Thus, this was made without observing the network responses since that would require an account...

Workflow:

• Look at JS
• Make (failing) request
• Add code to handle the request
• Repeat

To do

• File recovery
• Snapshots
• File History

Setup

• git clone https://github.com/acheong08/obsidian-sync
• cd obsidian-sync
• export HOST=<YOUR DOMAIN NAME>
• go run cmd/obsidian-sync/main.go
• Use nginx or cloudflare to proxy & handle TLS/SSL

Nginx configuration

map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
        default upgrade;
        '' close;
}
server {
	listen 80 default_server;
	listen [::]:80 default_server;
	location / {
		proxy_http_version 1.1;
            	proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
            	proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
           	proxy_set_header Host $host;
		proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/;
	}
	server_name _;
}

Adding a new user

go run cmd/signup/main.go

Usage

As ObsidianMD is written with Electron, you can unzip the resource pack and modify it to suite your needs

• Download Obsidian
• tar -xvzf obsidian-1.3.7.tar.gz
• cd obsidian-1.3.7/resources
• npx asar extract obsidian.asar obsidian
• sed -i 's|api.obsidian.md|<YOUR DOMAIN NAME>|g' obsidian/starter.js (Remember to replace https with http if running on localhost)
• sed -i 's|api.obsidian.md|<YOUR DOMAIN NAME>|g' obsidian/app.js
• npx asar pack obsidian obsidian.asar
• Run the binary