This is a small command-line program that fetches requested metadata values from the currently-selected item(s) in DEVONthink.

• Introduction
• Installation
• Usage
• Known issues and limitations
• Getting help
• Contributing
• License
• Authors and history
• Acknowledgments

DEVONthink is a marvelous and powerful personal database system for macOS. If you're a long-time Unix/Linux user, you may find yourself wishing for a simple way to get data from DEVONthink from the command line and use it with (e.g.) shell scripts, command pipelines, and other typical Unix features. DEVONthink does support scripting via AppleScript (and JavaScript), but writing AppleScript or JavaScript code can be difficult and frustrating, especially if all you want is something simple such as the value of a metadata field of an item in DEVONthink.

Ask-devonthink is a command-line program that lets you ask DEVONthink for the value of metadata fields for item(s) currently in your database.

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If you find an issue, please submit it in the GitHub issue tracker for this repository.

I would be happy to receive your help and participation if you are interested. Everyone is asked to read and respect the code of conduct when participating in this project. Development generally takes place on the development branch.

This software is Copyright (C) 2021, by Michael Hucka and the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California, USA). This software is freely distributed under a 3-clause BSD type license. Please see the LICENSE file for more information.

Copyright (c) 2021 by Michael Hucka and the California Institute of Technology.

This work is a personal project developed by the author, using computing facilities and other resources of the California Institute of Technology Library.