OpenClaw Skill: Obsidian Markdown to 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
• node skills/obsidian-cloudflare-pages/bin/publishmd-cf.js run --dry-run
  • previews actions without mutating files or deploying

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
# optional auth envs: BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME / BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD

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.
• Fallback cleanup is guarded and requires ALLOW_DESTRUCTIVE=1 when workspace is non-empty.
• Dry-run output redacts sensitive values such as API tokens.

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)
• Prefer env-backed basic auth (BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME / BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD)
• 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.

Safety switches:

• --dry-run (or DRY_RUN=1) to preview actions without mutating/deploying
• ALLOW_DESTRUCTIVE=1 only when you intentionally allow fallback setup to clear a non-empty workspace directory