Obsidian Cloudflare Pages

Publish selected Obsidian markdown from a vault to a static site and deploy to Cloudflare Pages.

OpenClaw Skill: Obsidian/Markdown → Cloudflare Pages

This is an OpenClaw Skill for publishing Markdown to Cloudflare Pages.

• Works with Obsidian vault folders or any Markdown folder
• Originally built for reading Obsidian Web Clipper output:
  • https://obsidian.md/clipper

Automates a safe publishing flow:

1. Select notes from your source folder
2. Sync to a publish workspace
3. Build static HTML with Quartz
4. Deploy to Cloudflare Pages

Commands

• node skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/bin/publishmd-cf.js init
  • Creates config/config.json from example
• node skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/bin/publishmd-cf.js wizard
  • Interactive setup wizard for config (vault, folders, site/domain, Cloudflare project)
• node skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/bin/publishmd-cf.js setup-project
  • Initializes Quartz project in configured workspace if missing
• node skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/bin/publishmd-cf.js doctor
  • Validates paths + required binaries
• node skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/bin/publishmd-cf.js sync
  • Syncs selected notes/assets into publish content folder
• node skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/bin/publishmd-cf.js build
  • Runs Quartz build in project dir
• node skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/bin/publishmd-cf.js deploy
  • Deploys to Cloudflare Pages with wrangler
• node skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/bin/publishmd-cf.js run
  • sync → build → deploy

Config

Copy and edit:

skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/config/config.example.json → skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/config/config.json

Safety defaults

• Publish allowlist by folder
• Optional publish: true frontmatter gate
• Exclude private folders by default

Requirements

• node 20+
• rsync
• npm
• npx quartz
• wrangler

Cloudflare API token setup (recommended)

Create a Cloudflare API token with at least:

• Account → Cloudflare Pages:Edit
• (Optional) Zone → DNS:Edit if you want DNS automation elsewhere

You can either export env vars in your shell profile (~/.zshrc) or use the skill-local .env file.

Option A: shell profile (~/.zshrc)

export CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN="<your-token>"
export CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID="<your-account-id>"

Reload shell:

source ~/.zshrc

Option B: skill-local env file (recommended for this skill)

cp skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/.env.example skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/.env
# then edit .env

The CLI auto-loads skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/.env (without overriding existing shell env vars).

Wizard now asks for:

• Full production domain (e.g. YOURDOMAIN.COM)
• Branding settings (root source folder, source index label, root index label, sidebar title HTML)
• Token/account env var names (defaults above)
• Optional basic-auth protection (username/password)

Notes

• ⚠️ setup-project fallback behavior: if the direct Quartz bootstrap command fails, the fallback path may clear files in the configured workspace directory before cloning Quartz. Use a dedicated workspace path for this skill.

OpenClaw usage tips

Example prompts:

• “Set up obsidian-cloudflare-pages wizard for my markdown folder.”
• “Run doctor and tell me what dependency is missing.”
• “Sync, build, and deploy to Cloudflare Pages.”
• “Enable basic auth and redeploy.”

Best practices:

• Keep secrets in .env (never in chat logs)
• Commit config.example.json, not personal config.json
• Use a scoped Cloudflare token (Pages edit, DNS edit only if needed)
• Start on a test subdomain before production

Standalone usage (outside OpenClaw)

This works as a plain Node CLI too:

node bin/publishmd-cf.js init
node bin/publishmd-cf.js wizard
cp .env.example .env
# fill .env values
node bin/publishmd-cf.js run

Security note

Basic auth in this skill is intentionally simple and optional. Do not publish highly sensitive content unless you fully understand your security model and hardening choices.