Export Obsidian Vaults Into Clean Markdown Trees For Publishing Or Downstream Processing

---
name: "Export Obsidian vaults into clean Markdown trees for publishing or downstream processing"
slug: "export-obsidian-vaults-into-clean-markdown-trees-for-publishing-or-downstream-processing"
description: "Convert Obsidian vault content, wikilinks, and attachments into portable Markdown trees before publishing, indexing, or migrating notes."
github_stars: 1300
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/zoni/obsidian-export"
author: "zoni"
publisher_type: "user"
category: "Data Extraction & Transformation"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "zoni/obsidian-export"
  github_stars: 1300
---

# Export Obsidian vaults into clean Markdown trees for publishing or downstream processing

Convert Obsidian vault content, wikilinks, and attachments into portable Markdown trees before publishing, indexing, or migrating notes.

## Prerequisites

obsidian-export CLI and access to the source vault directory

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- As a text interface, this must be run from a terminal or Windows PowerShell.
- Note that the destination directory must exist, so you may need to create a new, empty directory first.
- Some static site generators are picky about frontmatter and require it to be present.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- docs directory and run generate.sh.
- ## Pre-built binaries
- Pre-compiled binaries for all major platforms are available at <https://github.com/zoni/obsidian-export/releases>

- Source: https://github.com/zoni/obsidian-export
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zoni/obsidian-export/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://github.com/zoni/obsidian-export

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/export-obsidian-vaults-into-clean-markdown-trees-for-publishing-or-downstream-processing/)