This is an appex extension script to remove PDF and color backgrounds from Notability documents. To use, open a doc in Notability, click share, use the Note format, choose Pythonista 3, choose this script. You will then get a ne "open in" dialog. Choose Notability from that dialog to re-import the modified doc.

The script treats the note as a zip file, unpacks it, removes any PDFs, edits Session.plist to change the bg color to white, then archives the result.

Notes:

• Notability's format could change at any time and break this script, so use it at your own risk!!
• I didn't try to use pip, so I 'installed' the biplist module by copy pasting it into my lib directory. I was not able to get plistlib to read the plist file.
• camelCase var names, sorry!

#coding: utf-8

import console, shutil, appex, os.path, zipfile, os, glob, re, plistlib

# Install biplist (I could not get plistlib to read the plist file, even
# when I used fmt=plistlib.FMT_BINARY))
# Rather than using pip, I just put the contents of this url in ./lib/biplist.py
# https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wooster/biplist/master/biplist/__init__.py

from lib.biplist import *

tmpPath = './jtziptmp/'
extractedPath = './jtziptmp/extracted/'
tmpFileName = 'tmpfile.zip'
newFileName = tmpPath+os.path.basename(appex.get_file_path())+'_bgstripped.note'
shutil.rmtree(tmpPath)
os.mkdir(tmpPath)
os.mkdir(extractedPath)
shutil.copy(appex.get_file_path(),tmpPath+tmpFileName)
shutil.unpack_archive(tmpPath+tmpFileName,extractedPath)

pattern = "^.*pdf$"
mypath = extractedPath
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(mypath):
    for file in filter(lambda x: re.match(pattern, x), files):
        os.remove(os.path.join(root, file)) # remove the pdf bg

pattern = "^Session.plist$"
mypath = extractedPath
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(mypath):
    for file in filter(lambda x: re.match(pattern, x), files):
        plist = readPlist(os.path.join(root, file))
        plist['$objects'][1]['paperIndex'] = 12 # set white bg
        writePlist(plist,os.path.join(root, file))
        
shutil.make_archive(newFileName,'zip',extractedPath)
shutil.move(newFileName+'.zip',newFileName)
console.open_in(newFileName)

omz's solution works great!

Thanks everyone!

Hi there!

Can anyone show me how to access the current WIFI SSID via Pythonista? This would be awesome in the widget.

Thanks,
John