zolrath / obsidian-auto-link-title

Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links

Obsidian Auto Link Title

Automatically Title New Links

This plugin automatically fetches the webpage to extract link titles when they're pasted, creating a markdown link with the correct title set.

For example:

When pasting https://github.com/zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title the plugin fetches the page and retrieves the title, resulting in a paste of: [zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title: Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links](https://github.com/zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title)

Add Titles To Existing Raw URLs

Additionally, using ctrl-shift-e (Windows) or cmd-shift-e (OS X) you can enhance an existing raw link to a markdown formatted link with the proper title.

If your text cursor is within the url https://github.com/zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title pressing ctrl-shift-e or cmd-shift-e converts the text to [zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title: Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links](https://github.com/zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title)

Overwrite Titles Of Existing Markdown Links

Additionally, using ctrl-shift-e (Windows) or cmd-shift-e (OS X) you can overwrite an existing title of a markdown link with the fetched title from the url.

If your text cursor is within [some plugin](https://github.com/zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title) pressing ctrl+shift+e fetches the sites title and replaces it, resulting in [zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title: Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links](https://github.com/zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title)

Mobile Pasting

In order to paste the URL ensure you perform the Tap and Hold -> Paste action to paste the URL into your document.

Gboard

Google's Gboard keyboard has a Clipboard helper shortcut above the keyboard to quickly paste. Due to the implementation of that feature, it does not trigger the paste event, preventing this plugin from interacting with the text.

obsidian-auto-link-title's Issues

Google Doc titles

This plugin helps greatly make Obsidian a more readable platform.

Currently, Google Docs links are giving the generic title: "Google Docs – create and edit documents online, for free"

It would be great to pull the document title. Most clippers are able to do that.

Much appreciated.

[feature request ]Allow Headers to be edited. (especially UserAgent)

Some sites don't like the obsidian headers so they always title "not available".

Escape special characters in URLs when title isn't parsed

When pasting a URL like https://twitter.com/_underscore, the plugin substitutes [https://twitter.com/_underscore](https://twitter.com/_underscore). The problem is Obisdian interprets the underscore as a Markdown character and renders the latter half of the link as italic. The plugin should escape characters like _ and * when putting raw URLs into titles.

Plays audio from linked YouTube video

I pasted a YouTube link and it started playing audio - what I assume were ads from YouTube - in the background until I quit Obsidian entirely...

Trim white space characters from both ends of the title

Thank you for a super useful plugin...

I've had a few cases recently where whitespace characters have ended up at the start or end of the titles, and I trim them by hand.

It's not a big deal, but I wondered if it would be possible for the plugin to remove them automatically. I can't think of any situation where they would be useful.

Examples, as generated by the plugin:

• \n Archives | CSS-Tricks
• \r\n\tHoliday at Nicolle Tower in St Clement, Jersey | The Landmark Trust\r\n

Source of the above links:

- [\n    Archives | CSS-Tricks](https://css-tricks.com/archives/)
- [\r\n\tHoliday at Nicolle Tower in St Clement, Jersey | The Landmark Trust\r\n](https://www.landmarktrust.org.uk/search-and-book/properties/nicolle-tower-9638/#Overview)

I hope this function can also be used on the mobile obsidian

Because the mobile app is in urgent need of this function---the current situation is that the mobileapp lacks the official "share" function

There are also some links that cannot be obtained, and the problem of abnormal acquisition

There are also some links that cannot be obtained, and the problem of abnormal acquisition:

• https://mp.weixin.qq.com/mp/appmsgalbum?__biz=Mzg4MjAwNTUwNw==&action=getalbum&album_id=1448541657456295937&scene=173&from_msgid=2247484083&from_itemidx=1&count=10#wechat_redirect&scene=0&subscene=90&sessionid=1606652573&enterid=1606653138
• https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=Mzg4MjAwNTUwNw==&mid=2247483875&idx=1&sn=a0ac3879d793790690ea40ccc9c5c5ab&chksm=cf5c028ff82b8b999b44bcdba1823548fafa1bd6e4785464be6445efbed54b27fa487a91365e&scene=178&cur_album_id=1448541657456295937#rd
• https://movie.douban.com/subject/3552028/
• https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1qy4y1t7fn?spm_id_from=333.851.b_7265636f6d6d656e64.3

High CPU usage when can't fetch title

Sometimes when pasting an URL the plugin is not able to fetch the title. The obsidian process that is created will continue to work until manually terminated. Single unfetched title adds around 8% CPU workload in my case.

Would be nice if process would kill itself automatically if it runs for more than few seconds

Crashes on pasting links

I've had Obsidian crash a few times just after pasting a hyperlink.
I also can't narrow it down to specific sites, ( I recall a link to Zenodo.com, or a shortcode url for example)

I can only imagine that problems were created by an obsidian update - since this plugin did not update recently.

Maybe others had a similar experience?

edit:
Crashed after pasting this URL: https://www.integromat.com/en
Opened Obsidian again, (the link text was stuck on "fetching title"), pasted again - crashed again.

PDF site auto linking opens "save file" dialog

Linking to raw PDF files opens Obsidian's browser-like save file dialog. Here's a link example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mozilla/pdf.js/master/test/pdfs/160F-2019.pdf

YouTube links don't work anymore

They used to be fine, but now YouTube channel or video links don't yield a real title but Before you continue to YouTube.

Links used: https://www.youtube.com/teded, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy9nj94xvKA.

It looks like YouTube's cookie consent page's title for when you first open the site in a browser.

Option to enable pulling up the channel's name too.

Currently It can oull the titles, I was hoping there can be an optional toggle for fetching the channel's name too.

Suggestion: also fetch date and channel name from major sites like youtube and twitter

This would really add a lot of everyday convenience to Obsidian. The vast majority of my and other people's needs would be satisfied by getting more information from merely 2 sites:

• youtube. Date and channel name.
• twitter. Date.

The date should obviously be in iso-8601 format.

Will replace text at tops of other pages with link title

Occurs when I move to another page when the link is being fetched. Has also occurred sometimes, when I click somewhere when the link is being fetched.

Some text, at the top few lines of the page will be replaced with the title of the link and the link itself will remain "fetching title"

No title fetching on mobile

I've recently noticed that link paste action doesn't fully work on my Obsidian iOS version. I'm saying fully because whenever I paste a link, it's pasted with Markdown link formatting but there's no title fetching happens. Text part just stays blank.

I've tried waiting and checking if there might be something else causing an issue but everything seems fine. I'm not sure if it's a mobile limitation or a bug but I'd like to have this plugin working as intended on my phone too.

Copy Paste (using shortcut) not working when Plugin Enabled

Bug Description

• When Auto Link Title is enabled the Copy Paste shortcut (Ctrl + C followed by Ctrl + V) is not working
• When copy pasting manually using the Right Click menu option the feature works as expected
• If any text is copied using the menu option every subsequent copy paste will only paste the text selected using the menu option

Bug Demonstration

bug_demo.mp4

plugin doesn’t work with kanban plugin - cannot paste links there

Great plugin, but recently I cannot paste link into kanban cards when autolink plugin is active
I already filled the issue there
mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban#118

Titles are mixed when two or more links are being fetched

Hi everyone, I'm a obsidian user from China and I really appreciate this useful plugin. However, as you may know, the network connections to some specific websites are not quite good here, so I have to wait for the titles.

I noticed that if there're two or more links are in fetching stages, they'll finally get the same title as the one fetched early. For example, I'm fetching the titles of a.example.org and b.example.org, and if the title of a.example.org arrives first, both of the titles will be that one. I think some sort of isolation mechanism will help. Again, thank you for developing this awesome plugin!

Wrong title being pasted when fetching multiple titles at once

I've tried to fetch one url title before another fetch was done, which resulted in both titles being the same and hence one title being wrong.

Unrecognized link exists

Unrecognized link exists:

• https://www.baidu.com/s?ie=utf-8&f=8&rsv_bp=1&rsv_idx=2&tn=baiduhome_pg&wd=%E5%9B%BE%E4%B9%A6%E9%A6%86%E5%AD%A6%20%E7%9B%AE%E5%BD%95%E5%AD%A6&rsv_spt=1&oq=%25E5%259B%25BE%25E4%25B9%25A6%25E9%25A6%2586%25E5%25AD%25A6%2520%25E7%259B%25AE%25E5%25BD%2595%25E5%25AD%25A6&rsv_pq=d6a17b45004bb85c&rsv_t=da48%2FEdrpDzRCX4U%2FKfES3gAkctP1zYS5Hdgla3yIR3iowtsabAc%2BYAo%2BnF6y%2FulfB9Z&rqlang=cn&rsv_enter=0&rsv_dl=tb&rsv_btype=t
• https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%E4%BD%A0%E7%9A%84%E5%90%8D%E5%AD%97

Auto link seems to stop working in auto for PC Windows - Obsidian v0.12.19

Hi,

Firstly, thanks for the great plugin.

It suddenly stopped working maybe today. I tried re-install the plugin but the auto link when links pasted is not working. The command to get the link's title still work.

Can you please check? Many thanks.
NA

[Feature Request] Arbitrary post-processing of title

It would cool if there were a setting which consisted of a JavaScript code-block that would allow us to post-process the title before it's pasted into the document. This is useful for GitHub link titles which are long and have too much information for my taste.

So a setting that would allow me to define a hook like the following:

(url, title) => {
  if (/github\.com/.test(url)) {
    return title.replace(/^GitHub - ([^:]+):.*/, '$1');
  }
  return title;
}

Avoid replacing selected text

Hey! Great plugin!

I am using "Paste URL into selection" Obsidian plugin, and I would like to use this plugin in conjunction with it. However "Auto Link Title" replaces selected text, and seems to overwrite the behaviour of the other application. Could you consider changing this behaviour for selected/highlighted text?

Link to the mentioned plugin:
https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-url-into-selection

Editing name manually bug

Fetching of some titles works slowly for.
At several particular sites I store links from this process takes enough time for me to go to the page, copy the link name I need, return to Obsidian and paste it instead of 'fetching code' manually. And when the plugin does finally insert the fetched name, it gets pasted in the beginning of my note — because there is no more code to be replaced by it (and generally I do not like the name pattern that this site uses and will replace the name anyway).
So, please:

1. #6 — this would have solved my issue
2. Do not paste the name when there is no code found in the note :)
   Thus said, I love the plugin very much, because when it works — it works, and saves time.

Display garbled problem

Identify links: https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/509882629.html

Display effect:

Takes over Ctrl+v

Have a weird issue where plugin replaces my regular ctrl+v pastes. Have tried changing the keyboard shortcut, restarting, uninstalling. Using Windows v0.12.12.

Multiple LInk

Can you please support convert multiple link with a line break between them . so that i can convert multiple links at one time

disable auto-link in code blocks

Similar to disabling the plugin when pasting into yaml frontmatter (#21), the plugin should also be disabled when pasting into a code block.

cannot paste a link in memos if auto-link-title turns on.

I cannot paste a link in memos if auto-link-title turns on, but while can paste a link in memos if auto-link-title turns off. Thank you.

auto-link-title v1.2.5
obsidian appimage for Linux v1.1.9

Tweet urls just say "Twitter" as title, should show full text of tweet

Fantastically useful plug-in, but would be that much more so if it auto-inserted tweet body text of Twitter urls.

Disable auto-link title when pasting into Code block

For code blocks, everything should be "as it is", so please don't do title fetching in such sections.

Bad behaviour when I want past an url in the search field.

For search purpose ( ctrl+f or ctrl+maj+f )
I need to be able to paste an url in the search box but when I paste the url, the editor capture the action and the url text is paste on the opened md document...
Thanks you for this good job !

Fetching Title doesn't work when the url doesn't include https:// before

cmd+shift+e is the shortcut to add a title to the link, however, it seems that it doesn't work when the url doesn't include "https://" before.

www.youtube.com => cmd+shift+e => [Fetching Title#97u3](www.youtube.com)

but as soon as I add another link after:
https://www.youtube.com => cmd+shift+e => [Before you continue to YouTube](https://www.youtube.com)

The first link is updated: [Before you continue to YouTube](www.youtube.com)

[Feat] Pasting multiple URL's at once

Would it be possible to replace all the URL's when pasting instead of just 1 link at a time? Maybe this could just be a special command to avoid delays.

occasional occurrence of site unreachable problem.

problem : sometimes when my connection to certain web url is slow, it shows site unreachable. then, when the internet connection is better, it fetches the title correctly.

possible solution: increase the threshold maximum value for title fetching time.

[feature request] Extracting the URL title through scripts.

Extracting the URL title through scripts. I want in particular to use it along with templater to automate some note captures on mobile. i.e. create a new note from a template , paste the URL and get a new note with from the title of the URL. Is this possible?

Disable automatic title fetching

I would like to disable the automatic title fetching and only use the hotkey.

Is this already somehow possible? :)

Link fetching doesn't work in vim's normal or visual mode

I use Obsidian's vim mode.

When I paste a link (p) in visual or normal mode the title is not fetched.

It only works if I am in insert mode and past via Ctrl+v.

Is there a workaround for this or is this an inherent limitation in Obsidian's implementation of vim?

Disable auto-link title when pasting into Frontmatter

Currently the auto-linking happens whenever a link is pasted anywhere in the note. It would be great if a setting could be added to disable auto-linking when pasting into the Frontmatter section of the note.

Thanks for your work on this plugin!

Feature request: Retrieve title for existing links

Thank you very much for this awesome plugin! ❤️ Surprisingly big QOL improvement.

I have tons of old links without title, or with very lazy titles. I would love if I could automatically update/replace the titles with the help of this plugin. For example, an option could be added to the right click context menu for this.

[feature request] Exclude url list

Could you support exclude url list in option?
I often paste comapany internal url in .md, but auto-link-tilte can not reach and fetch the title.

Fail on Recognizing URLs Containing Specific Strings

Hi, I noticed that this plugin will miss a URL if it has a string like 'ai' in the middle of it. For example:

• it goes well with this one: https://www.a.com
• but this one will be missed: https://www.ai.com

After skimming through the code, I think this problem has something to do with the regex expression matching image files. Later I will submit a PR to try to fix it, but I am not sure whether it would introduce any new problem. Feel free to reject the PR if anything gets worse.

YouTube link title not being fetched on mobile

Instead of fetching the link title when pasting a link from YouTube.com it just shows YouTube on obsidian mobile.
For eg:
YouTube
Instead of
The Problem with F1 Sponsorships - YouTube
This problem occurs for YouTube links on obsidian mobile on Android 10

Link Titles on secure sites

Anyway to configure this plugin to use auth? When working on secure pages (with Edge) the link titles fail since this plugin is not using the login cookie.

Disable auto-link when pasting over a text

If I copy a URL, highlight a text to link it, and paste the URL, the plugin replaces my selection with the link which means that I then need to go and rewrite the title. This is super annoying.

A better approach would be for the plugin to respect the selection and use it instead of the fetched title.

Auto link all urls in a single note

How do you auto-link all the URLs in one note? Currently using cmd+shift+e on each link so is there some shortcut available?

Linked YouTube videos start playing in the background

YouTube videos start playing sound in the background for about a second after pasting their link. Happens around 1/3 of the time. Example link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy9nj94xvKA. I'm on 1.2.5 of the plugin, Obsidian v0.13.19, Windows 10.

Doesn't load in the latest Obsidian Insider-build

I can install it to the Community Plugins in my vault but I cannot enable it. I'm on 0.12.10.

Is it meant to create databases for sites with Facebook widgets?

Okay, so this is a weird one. Every time I run a link to a page with an embedded Facebook widget in it, a database is created in the Obsidian config directory. In the example below, aresaflowers.com, helstonrailway.co.uk and (I guess) youtube.com are the ones I mean:

laura@lauralaptop:~/.var/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/config/obsidian/IndexedDB$ ls -hl
total 0
drwx------ 1 laura laura 152 Apr 15 19:28 app_obsidian.md_0.indexeddb.leveldb
drwx------ 1 laura laura 112 Apr 15 14:48 app_static.obsidian.md_0.indexeddb.leveldb
drwx------ 1 laura laura  78 Apr  1 01:40 https_www.arenaflowers.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb
drwx------ 1 laura laura  92 Apr 15 21:58 https_www.helstonrailway.co.uk_0.indexeddb.leveldb
drwx------ 1 laura laura  98 Apr  1 01:31 https_www.youtube.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb

Is that expected behaviour? I've tested by watching the timestamps update by going to helstonrailway.co.uk and it definitely happens when I run "paste and auto fetch title".

Here is the top of one of the log files inside the database directory above:

laura@lauralaptop:~/.var/app/md.obsidian.Obsidian/config/obsidian/IndexedDB/https_www.helstonrailway.co.uk_0.indexeddb.leveldb$ cat 000003.log 
� 6>
F��Тw�"https_www.helstonrailway.co.uk_0@1EappsFacebookFeedCacheOf�j2

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Infuriatingly, I can't replicate this in the sandbox vault with just your plugin installed. And yet, if I use my main vault with all plugins disabled except this one, and with the default theme, the phenomenon still occurs! Weird!

Any ideas? Thanks for your help!

Disable auto-link on ctrl-shift-v

Sometimes the titles are not meaningful, so it would be good to have a simple way of undoing or preventing auto-linking. This is usually possible with shift-paste. It would be great to have that for this plugin.