Return a string of text and the backlink via dataview

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Probably somewhat of an overkill (I’m not much on javascript myself), but you can use something like this:

```dataviewjs
// Query all pages
const allPages = dv.pages("");

// Crawl content and render list
const pages = await Promise.all(
    allPages.map(async (page) => {
        const content = await dv.io.load(page.file.path);
        const regexPattern = /.*\bSEARCHTERM\b.*/gm;
        const regexMatches = content.match(regexPattern);

        if (regexMatches && regexMatches.length > 0) {
            return {
                link: page.file.link,
                content: regexMatches.join('\n\n')
            };
        }

        return null;
    })
);

// Filter out null entries and render the result list
const processedPages = pages.filter(p => p !== null);

dv.list(
    processedPages.map(p => `${p.link}\n${p.content}`)
);
```
  • If you want to specify a folder, change const allPages = dv.pages(""); to const allPages = dv.pages('"FOLDERNAME"');
  • Change SEARCHTERM to your own string you want returned. Spaces between strings should be allowed but you may do well to use \s for space, like so: cats\sand\sdogs.
  • You can remove the \b’s from const regexPattern = /.*\bSEARCHTERM\b.*/gm; like so: const regexPattern = /.*SEARCHTERM.*/gm; to get more – sometimes unwanted – results.

Script returns the paragraph(s) containing searchterm specified.

Glædelig jul!