YouTube Properties

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by Eduardo Orozco

Plugin that automatically creates notes with metadata of a youtube video as its properties.

Updated 1mo ago0BSDDiscovered via Obsidian Unofficial Plugins
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YouTube Properties

Description

This plugin automatically creates an Obsidian note containing metadata of a YouTube video. It fetches title, length, author, channel URL, upload date, thumbnail URL and the video URL.

How to use

  1. Click the ribbon icon (the one with the camera in it)

  2. Paste video's URL

  3. Your new note will be created

How to use settings

New file location

Set the folder location where your file will be created. Otherwise, files are created in your vault root folder.

Example template

---
title: "Video Title"
length: "10:23"
author: "Channel Name"
channelUrl: "https://www.youtube.com/channel/xxxxx"
uploadDate: "2024-10-01"
thumbnail: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/VIDEO_ID/maxresdefault.jpg"
videoUrl: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID"
---

Template definitions

  • title — Video title
  • length — Human-friendly duration
  • author — Channel or author name
  • channelUrl — Channel URL
  • uploadDate — Upload date reported by the source
  • thumbnail — Direct URL to the video's thumbnail image
  • videoUrl — Original YouTube video URL

License

This project includes a LICENSE file. See LICENSE for license terms.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute.

You can create an issue to report a bug, ask a question, etc. This is a very simple plugin due to i'm new at TypeScript and Obsidian plugins development. Any recommendation or suggestion of improvement for this plugin would be really appreciated.

You can make a pull request to contribute to this plugin development.

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