OpenWeatherMap Widget

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here is how you could set this up. i tried it and lua accepts it.
create a shell script outside your space and name it secret.key with following content:

#!/bin/bash
echo $OWM_API_KEY

now give this script executable permissions: chmod +x secret.key

add your key to the Environmental variables

OWM_API_KEY="YOURSUPERSECRETOWMAPIKEY"

then you can call the shell script directly in your config like this:

config.set( "owm", {
            apiKey = shell.run("../secret.key").stdout
            refresh = 30,                                 
            defLocation = "Nanchang",
            ...
})

Notice the relative path of the secret.key shell command to your space, ../ means right outside your space folder.

you restart your silverbullet instance/service to validate the Environmental variable.
and here you go, you keep your key outside your space.

i just tried it and it works surprisingly well, and like this, you don’t store your API_KEY in plain text in your space.

:warning:
CAUTION
:backhand_index_pointing_down:
this works only in a truly read only scenario:
because if silverbullet has write permissions, then someone could use this space-lua:

editor.flashNotification(shell.run("../secret.key").stdout)

and the API_KEY appears as a flash notification.