Auto Card Link Enhanced

• Automatically convert URLs into beautiful card-styled links with metadata, thumbnails and favicons.
• Card-styled links are generated by code block which does not mess up your Markdown files unlike HTML tags!
• Tailored handling for YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, GitHub, Wikipedia, Spotify and more.
• Options for thumbnail quality, saving images locally, and multiple card styles.

Features

• Paste a copied URL and enhance it into a card.
• Enhance a selected URL into a card.
• Right-click a card to refresh, delete, or add a line after it.
• Hotkey support for pasting or enhancing a URL into a card.
• Support for local images through internal links (image: "[[image.png]]").

Settings

• Enhance the default paste action.
• 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).

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

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
```

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.