Hi!
I use YouTube heavily as a source of information and create a lot of “bibliographic” notes on videos, so I created a Templater template for that.
Template prompts a video url, then using yt-dlp get video metadata that includes some useful info like chapters with time codes, video duration, description, e.t.c. to be inserted in template.
Here is the code obsidian youtube templater · GitHub
created video page looks like this:
there is also notes section below with subheading for each video chapter:
time codes are external links that open a video in browser at corresponding time.
dependencies: yt-dlp and jq command line utils must be installed in system, details are in template comments.
My solution is based on someone else’s script (I don’t remember where I got it from), that ran one ytdlp process per one video property. The advantage of my template is that I make one call to yt-dlp -j "<video_url>" to query all fields at once in json, then use jq to filter out the results and not parse a huge json in obsidian runtime. This is much faster.
Hope, somebody will find this usable.
a few notes for other people who want to try it.