Obsidian Plugin: Convert a URL into markdown

Transforms a URL to markdown view if the website allows it.

Installation

Available in the community plugin store in options.

Modes

Operates in 2 modes.

1. Selection - If you select a URL in the document and execute these commands it will replace the selection with the markdown content.
2. Document - If you add front mater with the key of link to your document then it is treated as a linked document. Then calling extract will look for the link and replace the content of the document with the extracted content.

Document mode example

---
link: "https://bart.degoe.de/building-a-full-text-search-engine-150-lines-of-code/"
---

everything below the --- will be replaced when calling extract

Commands

• Extract: Replace url or document with readable markdown extracted from the sites html content
• Title Only: Replace url or document with a markdown anchor with the title extracted from the page content
• Import from Clipboard: Extract content from url that is found in your clipboard and dump it at your cursor. Desktop only

Youtube

If your system has youtube-dl installed extra details like channel name and description will be extracted for youtube urls.