silverbullet as cli/scripting tool

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Good morning! First, thanks a lot for building and maintaining silverbullet, it’s pretty much exactly what I was looking for!

One thing I’d love to do is to run silverbullet queries over my space as a cli script. For example,

$ silverbullet /path/to/my/space -q 'from index.tag "page" where table.includes(tags, "meta")' | ...

Rather than serving my notes it would run the query and pass it through the pipe.

I wonder how tightly coupled is the implementation of the serving part vs query engine? What’s the right entry point to build this?

Thanks again!

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Unfortunately, this not really in the cards right now. The silverbullet server is pretty “dumb” — all it does is serve and persist files on disk. All the interesting logic: the indexing, the querying happens 100% in the client (the browser). In a previous version (v1) it actually happened both on the server and client, but for simplification reasons I now moved everything to just the browser, which means that accessing this functionality from the CLI is pretty much not doable.

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