URLs in graph view

Feature requests
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It would be nice to have the ability to see related external links (URLs) to notes inside the graph view.

I have a lot of notes with some internet links inside, It would be nice to have a filter (like the “tags” filter) to be able to see them.

As an exemple: for “https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat” it would add a “en.wikipedia.org” node connected to all the notes that have a link to “en.wikipedia.org” and its subpages.

Down below a mockup with the pages Cat, Dog and 42 of wikipedia.

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In the long run, this would allow all the notes that come from the same source to be linked.

What do you think about it?

Pardon my English, I’m French :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I don’t found any feature request related before posting.
However, there is the same request for a plugin here.

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There is also this plugin request: Can show URL in graph

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Thank you!
I just edited the post to mention it.

Like I said, I think it’s better to just have this feature as a filter in the graph view, like the “tags” filter but with another node colour.

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As it happens, this is already possible: you just have to create links without https://.

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Interesting!
If I understood correctly, you achieve this by creating a link to a note that doesn’t exist yet. It’s almost a hack to get this feature.

However, when I tried I got this :

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The purpose of this feature request is to have a single node, let’s say en.wikipedia.org, to link all the notes with a wikipedia URL inside.
In this exemple:

would be linked to a en.wikipedia.org node, by truncate the rest of the URL, to just get the hostname, without the uniqueness of all the pages (/wiki/Cat, /wiki/Dog, etc…).
See the result.

So, yes, it will work if I add manually another link (to the same hostname without https://) to all the notes, but it would be painful and at the end really difficult to track.

Therefore, I propose to do it automatically in the graph view.
By adding a dedicated filter to group the URLs by hostname.
This would allow a better visualization of the links between the notes.

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I guess:

  • tags: (#\S+)[\s\n]
  • URLs: https?://(S+)/
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I would also like this!

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This would be a fantastic feature! Helps to turn obsidian more into something like The Brain does.

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Any update on this feature request ?

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Yeah I’d like this to be a feature as well

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Does anybody know if there have been any plugins or native functionality that can do as described above?