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feat: Add installer for official Obsidian CLI
yugal1107 May 10, 2026
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fix: install as obsidian-cli to avoid shadowing GUI, add curl fail flag
yugal1107 May 10, 2026
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refactor: use trap for cleanup, install for copying, add arm64 support
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#!/bin/bash

# omarchy:summary=Install the official Obsidian CLI binary
# omarchy:hidden=false

echo "Fetching latest Obsidian release version..."
LATEST_RELEASE=$(curl -sL "https://api.github.com/repos/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/releases/latest" | jq -r '.tag_name')

if [[ "$LATEST_RELEASE" == "null" || -z "$LATEST_RELEASE" ]]; then
echo "Error: Could not fetch latest release version from GitHub."
exit 1
fi

VERSION="${LATEST_RELEASE#v}"
DOWNLOAD_URL="https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/releases/download/${LATEST_RELEASE}/obsidian-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)

echo "Downloading Obsidian CLI v${VERSION}..."
curl -L "$DOWNLOAD_URL" -o "$TEMP_DIR/obsidian.tar.gz" --progress-bar

if [[ ! -f "$TEMP_DIR/obsidian.tar.gz" ]]; then
echo "Error: Download failed."
rm -rf "$TEMP_DIR"
exit 1
fi

echo "Extracting binary..."
tar -xzf "$TEMP_DIR/obsidian.tar.gz" -C "$TEMP_DIR"

if [[ ! -f "$TEMP_DIR/obsidian-${VERSION}/obsidian-cli" ]]; then
echo "Error: obsidian-cli binary not found in the downloaded archive."
rm -rf "$TEMP_DIR"
exit 1
fi

echo "Installing to ~/.local/bin/obsidian..."
mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
cp "$TEMP_DIR/obsidian-${VERSION}/obsidian-cli" ~/.local/bin/obsidian
chmod 755 ~/.local/bin/obsidian

rm -rf "$TEMP_DIR"

echo "✅ Obsidian CLI installed successfully!"
echo "You can now use 'obsidian <command>' in your terminal."