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#api/syscall
The `index` API provides functions for interacting with SilverBullet's [[Object|Objects]], allowing you to store and query data.
## Object Operations
## index.tag(name)
Returns a given [[Object#Tags]] as a query collection, to be queried using [[Space Lua/Integrated Query]].
Example:
${query[[from index.tag("page") limit 1]]}
## index.markdown(text, pageMeta?)
Ad-hoc indexes `text` (represented as a markdown string) in memory, and returns all objects found there for further query. When no `pageMeta` is supplied dummy (empty) values will be used.
Example:
${query[[
from index.markdown("* Item 1\n* [ ] Task 1")
where _.tag == "item"
]]}
## index.indexObjects(page, objects)
Indexes an array of objects for a specific page and stores it in the data store.
Example:
```lua
local objects = {
{tag = "mytask", ref="task1", content = "Buy groceries"},
{tag = "mytask", ref="task2", content = "Write docs"}
}
index.indexObjects("my page", objects)
```
## index.queryLuaObjects(tag, query, scopedVariables?)
Queries objects using a Lua-based collection query.
Example:
```lua
local tasks = index.queryLuaObjects("mytask", {limit=3})
```
## index.getObjectByRef(page, tag, ref)
Retrieves a specific object by its reference.
Example:
```lua
local task = index.getObjectByRef("my page", "mytask", "task1")
if task then
print("Found task: " .. task.content)
end
```
## index.extractFrontmatter(text, extractOptions)
Extracts frontmatter from a markdown document (whose text is provided as argument), possibly cleaning it up. It also parses top-level tags consistent with SilverBullet's tag indexing system.
It returns a table with two keys:
- `frontmatter`: A table containing the parsed frontmatter.
- `text`: The text of the document, with any changes applied requested with the `extractOptions`.
The `extractOptions` is an optional table that can contain the following keys (which will affect the returned `text`):
- `removeKeys`: An array of keys to remove from the frontmatter.
- `removeTags`: A boolean or array of tags to remove from the frontmatter.
- `removeTagsPrefix`: An array of hierarchical tag prefixes whose body hashtag occurrences should be removed. A tag matches a prefix if it equals the prefix or starts with `${prefix}/`. For example, `{"meta/template"}` removes `#meta/template`, `#meta/template/page` and `#meta/template/slash`.
- `removeFrontMatterSection`: A boolean to remove the frontmatter section from the document.
Example applied to this page:
${(index.extractFrontmatter(editor.getText())).frontmatter}