Joplin Butler: CLI Joplin Automation Tools

(Yes it's Midjourney art of a note taking butler :p)

WARNING: Beta version of the codebase. I use it on my notes directly, but maybe do a backup

This provides a convenient wrapper around the Joplin WebClipper/Data Service: https://joplinapp.org/api/references/rest_api/

Motivation: the Joplin terminal app requires full sync, so it's not very convenient for quick Joplin scripting. Joplin has a more convenient API that it provides via a local JSON REST server, but using it via CURL is kind of a hassle. This library provides user-friendly CLI scripting tools for Joplin Desktop

Example

Create a note with title, resource, notebook (parent folder), and markdown body:

> joplin-butler create resource ~/Downloads/Big\ airship/NE/still/still\ only0003.png

ID: b8a8f3b5249943ca95aa0571bd905766
Title: still only0003.png
Filename: 
CreatedTime: 1681174988187
UpdatedTime: 1681174988187
UserCreatedTime: 1681174988187
UserUpdatedTime: 1681174988187
Size: 1068527
IsShared: 0

> joplin-butler get folders

269afae798c445fda34a2817cb0a96ea AE Misc
4216484946714902922c15b075d39e28 Frequent
dc80329d7b694117850e21556d59ddc7 Huge Lung
029466b3d52f4cf2bf3aaab11ade8e40 Ideas
a95cab228a9d4f118d4ad2c0a1b1adc5 Travel

> joplin-butler create note 'My CLI Joplin Dream' \
    -body 'Begins today :D\n\n ![airship](:/b8a8f3b5249943ca95aa0571bd905766)' \
    -parent '269afae798c445fda34a2817cb0a96ea'

ID: acd2cc52a6444e42a163fcefe94464d7
Title: My CLI Joplin Dream
ParentID: 1d4c4899bc7d4df4ad45cd575ac30043
CreatedTime: 1681175174105
UpdatedTime: 1681175174105
Source: joplin-desktop
---
Begins today :D

 ![airship](:/b8a8f3b5249943ca95aa0571bd905766)

The above code created the following note in Joplin Desktop instantly:

Here we read the first two notes in the note list, and download detailed versions of the notes that show metadata and content

> joplin-butler notes | head -n2 | cut -d" " -f1 | \
    while read noteID; do  \
        joplin-butler note $noteID; |
    done

ID: 1b16f5bfd4854f1f98345ef3d5dcc8c3
Title: Some Best Insults
ParentID: 269afae798c445fda34a2817cb0a96ea
CreatedTime: 1307227257000
UpdatedTime: 1307227414000
Source: evernote
---
- "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde
- I'd agree with you but then we would both be wrong
- If you were any less intelligent you would have to be watered twice a day.
- Your IQ does not even make a respectable earthquake.

ID: 6b2795f324154e33b3d2088625f44c66
Title: Localization and Plurals - MDN
ParentID: de70a04660784689a2b6cf32316e3632
CreatedTime: 1318376811000
UpdatedTime: 1318376813000
Source: evernote.web.clip
---
Introduced in Gecko 1.9
(Firefox 3)

You're likely here because you're localizing a .properties file and it had
a link to this page. This page is to help explain how to localize these
strings so that the correct plural form is shown to the user. E.g., "1 page"
vs "2 pages" ...

Delete a note:

> joplin-butler delete note/50fe5cf5dc6f4070a11c869cd4ec0138

Successfully deleted notes/50fe5cf5dc6f4070a11c869cd4ec0138

Development

The following commands put Go into the correct modules mode:

export GO111MODULE=on
export GOPATH=

Then go run main.go should work

Current Status

• Automated authentication flow that pops up a dialog in Joplin
• Configuration is saved to ~/.joplin-butler/config.json
• Can fetch the all-notes list and inspect individual notes
• Can create items like notes, folders, tags
• Can delete items like notes, folders, tags
• Can create resources / upload files by name

TODO

• Filters for which metadata to get about items
• Attaching,Removing: attachments, tags, etc
• Editing items, notes