Follow the Money Builder
Manually build structured Follow the Money data and upload to OpenAleph instances.
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This Obsidian plug-in allows the user to create Follow the Money entities independent of, but optionally for, OpenAleph.
⚠️ This plug-in is in an Alpha stage. It may still contain bugs. If you would like to report a bug or request a feature, please open an Issue.
Installation
You must have Obsidian installed in order to use this plug-in.
Your Obsidian app version must be equal or newer 1.13.0. You can see the version by opening the Settings and navigating to the General section. If you have an older version of Obsidian, upgrade to a more recent version.
This plug-in can be installed directly via the Obsidian Community plug-ins catalogue. Two other installation methods are detailed below.
Install using the BRAT plug-in
If you already have the Beta Reviewers Auto-update Tester plug-in (called BRAT), you can add https://github.com/noop-ptf/FollowTheMoneyBuilder and select the latest version of this plug-in.
Install from source code
- Make sure you have NodeJS installed, and that the version is at least v18 (
node --version). If you don't have NodeJS installed, follow the official instructions - Navigate to the plug-ins directory of your Obsidian vault (usually located at
VaultName/.obsidian/plugins/). Here, rungit clone https://github.com/noop-ptf/FollowTheMoneyBuilder.git followthemoney-builder. - Navigate into the newly-created directory, that contains the source code, and install the dependencies:
npm i - Run
npm run build. This should produce three files:main.js,styles.css,manifest.json. - Open Obsidian, navigate to the Settings > Community plugins and refresh the list of plug-ins. Follow the Money Builder should appear. Enable it.
Related projects
OpenAleph Search allows a user to search through many different OpenAleph instances simultaneously. OpenAleph Explore allows a user to send a note to all the OpenAleph instances they have access to in order to extract structured Follow the Money data and related terms.
Sponsor
Follow the Money Builder: an Obsidian Plug-in is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) through the Prototype Fund under funding code (Förderkennzeichen) 16IS26S15.
