Obsidian Book Search Plugin

Easily create book notes.

Demo

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Description

Use to query book using :

• A book title, author, publisher or ISBN (10 or 13).

Use Google Books API to get the book information.

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How to install

Click the link to install the Book Search plugin: Install Link

Or, Search in the Obsidian Community plugin. And install it.

How to use

1. Set the folder to new file location in plugin options. And you can also add a frontmatter that is inserted when creating a note.

2. Excute the command "Create new book note".

3. Search for books by keywords.

4. Select the book from the search results.

5. Voila! A note has been created.

How to use settings

(Deprecated) Text to insert into front matter

You can add the following to the default Front Matter, or create a new Front Matter with the structure you want.

(Deprecated) Text to insert into content

You can add text to the content for Dataview inline metadata.

Please use the template file described below.

Example template

Please also find a definition of the variables used in this template below (see: Template variables definitions).

---
tag: 📚Book
title: "{{title}}"
author: [{{author}}]
publisher: {{publisher}}
publish: {{publishDate}}
total: {{totalPage}}
isbn: {{isbn10}} {{isbn1#template-variable-definition
cover: {{coverUrl}}
status: unread
created: {{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss}}
updated: {{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss}}
---

![cover|150]({{coverUrl}})

# {{title}}

Dataview rendering

Here is the dataview query used in the demo

# 📚 My Bookshelf

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
	status as Status,
	rows.file.link as Book
FROM  #📚Book
WHERE !contains(file.path, "Templates")
GROUP BY status
SORT status
```

## List of all books

```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
	status as Status,
	"![|60](" + cover + ")" as Cover,
	link(file.link, title) as Title,
	author as Author,
	join(list(publisher, publish)) as Publisher
FROM #📚Book
WHERE !contains(file.path, "Templates")
SORT status DESC, file.ctime ASC
```

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Template variables definitions

Please find here a definition of the possible variables to be used in your template. Simply write {{name}} in your template, and replace name by the desired book data, including:

name	description
title	The title of the book.
author	The name of the book author. It can be multiple people.
category	book category
publisher	The publisher of the book.
totalPage	The total number of pages in the book.
coverUrl	Book cover image URL.
publishDate	The year the book was published.
isbn10	ISBN10
isbn13	ISBN13

License

Obsidian Book Search Plugin is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3 license. Refer to LICENSE for more information.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute.

You can create an issue to report a bug, suggest an improvement for this plugin, ask a question, etc.

You can make a pull request to contribute to this plugin development.