%% run start ```ts const {LinkPreview} = customJS return LinkPreview.getLinkPreviewFromUrl("https://github.com/datopian/markdowndb") ``` %% <div class="nifty-link-card-container"> <a class="nifty-link-card" href="https://github.com/datopian/markdowndb" target="_blank"> <div class="nifty-link-card-text"> <div class="nifty-link-card-title line-clamp-2">GitHub - datopian/markdowndb: An open library to transform markdown content into sql-queryable data. Build rich markdown-powered sites easily and reliably.</div> <div class="nifty-link-card-description">An open library to transform markdown content into sql-queryable data. Build rich markdown-powered sites easily and reliably. - GitHub - datopian/markdowndb: An open library to transform markdown c...</div> <div class="nifty-link-href"> <img class="nifty-link-icon" src="https://github.com/fluidicon.png"> https://github.com/datopian/markdowndb </div> </div> <div class="nifty-link-image-container"> <div class="nifty-link-image" style="background-image: url('https://opengraph.githubassets.com/64be809a38ae710c3f9ae3fa2d13bbbce7d2de58b0e463ff0b0f209ace74753a/datopian/markdowndb')"> </div> </div> </a> </div> %% run end %% ## What is It? MarkdownDB is a javascript library for treating markdown files as a database -- as a "MarkdownDB". Specifically, it: - Parses your markdown files to extract structured data (frontmatter, tags etc) and creates an index in a local SQLite database - Provides a lightweight javascript API for querying the database and importing files into your application ## Alternatives and Comparison? 1. [[Obsidian Dataview Js]], most of the time, dataview is good enough 2. [[ContentLayer]], contentlayer also turn frontmatter to json