List other filetypes in vault

[Spidrax]

I would like to be able to drop PDFs of articles related to a note into a folder in my vault and use dataview to generate a list of links to those files.

Such that this:
list from "Articles"

Would result in a list of files in that folder:

• Name of an article.pdf
• Another different article.pdf
• One more article.pdf

[Gregory-Esman]

Yes this would be a wonderful feature. +1!

[blacksmithgu]

Most queries tend to operate over pages (over content within that pages), so this probably wouldn't become default behavior, though it will probably accessible pretty simply as so:

list from files("path")
where file.extension = 'pdf'

This is part of other work I am looking into for making dataview "FROM" statements much more expressive.

[wujun001]

Support this feature。

[jowibou]

Both support and neeeeed this feature.

[youk]

@blacksmithgu I am wondering whether you have a rough estimate when this can be implemented. Like in a few months, this year, next year.. Queries over arbitrary files are essential for the vault am going to build, so I need to decide whether to stick with Obsidian or look elsewhere. Thanks.

[blacksmithgu]

Are you just looking for "query links to all files with basic metadata like name and file type"?

[youk]

Basic metadata should be enough, yes – at least for now. But I'm not sure if "links" have a special meaning here. There's only a directory added (symlinked, to be exact) to the vault, nothing more.

[AB1908]

@youk you can use DVJS to grab info for non markdown files via the Obs API.

[youk]

@AB1908 Thanks for the hint. That will do for now.

[huyz]

@youk can you share the DVJS query you figured out?

[youk]

@huyz dv.list(this.app.vault.getFiles())