/obsidian-auto-link-title

Automatically fetch the titles of pasted links

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Obsidian Auto Link Title

Auto linking example

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.

Privacy Note

In order to retrieve the title this plugin downloads the page located at the pasted URL and extracts the title.

<head><title>Title</title></head>

On Desktop machines this happens using electrons BrowserWindow, allowing it to handle extended character sets such as Chinese with no issue.

However, on mobile as we are not using the electron platform we must simply fetch the page. Due to CORS restrictions on web servers disallowing direct fetches it uses the allorigins.win proxy to download the page. This proxy does not support other character sets and will return them as question marks.