Extract Url Plugin. 0.7. Linked documents, media support and grab urls from the clipboard

trashhalo · April 10, 2021, 3:55pm

Available in the community plugin list. Source code here GitHub - trashhalo/obsidian-extract-url: Plugin to extract markdown out of urls Extract Url is a plugin that try’s to transform external links into usable markdown in obsidian.

It operates in 3 ways

Selection. Select an url and execute the commands
Linked documents (NEW). Add a link: element to the front matter to link a document to an external source. Commands will now respect this and selection no longer required.
Clipboard (NEW, 0.7+). Pull the copied link from your clipboard and dump its content into your current document at the cursor.

Link support

When I originally launched this plugin it focused on transforming long form written content into markdown. With version 0.6+ I now support dynamic media through oembed extraction. This means sites like twitter, youtube, vimeo, facebook etc can now be extract in a way that lets you engage with the content in your obsidian journal.

This is an example of me creating a linked document using frontmatter linking it to a youtube video.

This is an example of me creating a linked document using frontmatter linking it to a tweet I want to save.

This is an example of using selection to grab giphy content correctly embedding it in my page.

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