Link Archive

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by Tamás Deme

Archive links in your note so they're available to you even if the original site goes down or gets removed.

★ 142 stars↓ 6,807 downloadsUpdated 4y agoMIT
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Obsidian Link Archive

This plugin archives links in your note so they're available to you even if the original site goes down or gets removed.

How it works

Upon pressing the "Archive Links" button in the ribbon/left sidebar, the plugin:

  1. looks up every external link in the current note,
  2. sumbits each of them to https://archive.org,
  3. as soon as they are saved, it embeds an (Archived) link after the regular link in your note.

The plugin will attempt not to recreate archive links for already-archived links (and the archive links themselves) - but this relies on not modifying the formatting of the archive links.

Installation

In Obsidian, navigate to Settings > Community Plugins, turn off Safe mode if you haven't yet, then press the Browse button - you should be able to find it in the list there.

Alternatively, download the latest release of the repository, and copy the main.js, manifest.json and style.css files to you vault's .obsidian/plugins/obsidian-link-archive folder and then enable it under Settings > Community Plugins (the note about disabling above applies here as well).

Changelog

v0.2.0

  • Added error handling.
  • Plugin properly handles markdown links.
  • Added better progress reporting.
  • Refactored plugin into multiple files.
  • Added a setting for a custom link text.
  • Improved logic for detecting already-archived links.

v0.1.1

  • Added missing license.

v0.1.0

Initial release.

Future plans

  • Support for other archive providers

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