Auto Card Link Enhanced

Automatically generate beautiful card-styled links from URLs by fetching their metadata, thumbnails and favicons, and turning them into a YAML cardlink code block or into a compact inline Markdown link carrying the fetched title.

It includes tailored handling for over twenty sites — YouTube, Vimeo, Reddit, X, GitHub, GitLab, npm, Wikipedia, arXiv, Spotify, Stack Exchange, LinkedIn, Hacker News, Bluesky, IMDb, Notion, Discord and more — plus options for thumbnail quality, local image saving and multiple card styles.

Features

• Paste or drop a URL and turn it into a card, or into an inline Markdown link ([title - Site](url)) carrying the title fetched from the page.
• Convert URLs already written in a note, one or several at once, from the right-click menu or a hotkey.
• Right-click a card to refresh, delete, add a line after it, or turn it back into a Markdown link.
• Right-click a Markdown link to refresh its title or turn it into a card.
• Cards and Markdown links have separate commands, so each can have its own hotkey and both can be used side by side.
• Support for local images through internal links (image: "[[image.png]]").
• Links to content that is gone — a deleted post, a removed video, an expired invite — produce a card built from the URL, instead of a confident-looking card describing the site's own error page or sign-in wall. The card is marked status: not-found, and its title is marked the way the settings say.

Settings

• Choose what pasting or dropping a URL produces, independently for each: a plain URL, a Markdown link, or a card link.
• Add the commands to the right-click menu.
• Save images and favicons locally (with configurable folders).
• Choose the card style.
• Show the thumbnail on the left or right of the card.
• Choose thumbnail quality (best looking vs. max resolution).
• Use an external service as a fallback for blocked sites (off by default).
• Mark links that are not found: strike the title through (default), put a text of your choice before it, or leave it as it is. Cards follow the setting as it is now, including cards already in your notes; Markdown links keep the mark they were written with.

Network use

This plugin needs internet access to fetch link metadata. To be transparent about what it sends and where:

• By default, it fetches metadata directly from the site you are linking to (the same request your browser would make to load that page). Nothing is sent to any other third party.
• Optionally, if you enable "Use external service for blocked sites" in the settings, the plugin will — only when a direct fetch fails — send the link's URL to the third-party service microlink.io to retrieve metadata from sites that block direct access (e.g. Cloudflare-protected pages). This setting is off by default, and no data is ever sent to microlink.io unless you turn it on.

[!IMPORTANT] No analytics, telemetry, or personal data are collected by this plugin.

Cardlink syntax

The code block cardlink uses YAML syntax for displaying card-styled link.

attributes

name	required	description
url	true	url to open when you click the link
title	true	title of the link
description	false	description of the link
host	false	host of the link
favicon	false	favicon of the link
image	false	thumbnail image to show in the card link
author	false	channel or author (if present)
duration	false	duration time for videos
status	false	not-found when the site says the page is not there; the title is then marked as the settings say

example

```cardlink
url: https://obsidian.md/
title: "Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking"
description: "The free and flexible app for your private thoughts."
host: obsidian.md
favicon: https://obsidian.md/favicon.ico
image: https://obsidian.md/images/banner.png
```

A link the site says is not there:

```cardlink
url: https://github.com/obsidianmd/nonexistent-repo
title: "obsidianmd/nonexistent-repo"
host: github.com
favicon: https://github.com/favicon.ico
status: not-found
```

Customizing Style

Card-styled link is styled by styles.css. To customize, you can try making CSS snippets.

For example:

.auto-card-link-author {
	display: none;
}

To hide the author.

Motivation

• Wanted to show beautiful links in my notes
• Didn't want to mess up my notes with HTML tags
• Wanted to keep the original plugin updated (KreNtal)

Credits

This is a fork of the original obsidian-auto-card-link by Nekoshita Yuki.

Auto Card Link Enhanced maintained by KreNtal since 2026-05-04.