Obsidian Pretty URLs

A plugin for Obsidian to improve display of URLs

Remove common prefixes like https:// and www. from links in reading view. Useful if you can't be bothered to use markdown links and still want your notes to look clean. The plugin only affects the display of links – the actual note content remains unchanged.

Example

Before

Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1Gnxhfok0
and read https://m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica

After

Watch youtube.com/watch?v=3C1Gnxhfok0
and read wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsica

Features

• Strip protocol: Remove http:// or https://
• Strip www subdomain: Remove www.
• Strip mobile subdomain: Remove m. and mobile.
• Strip amp subdomain: Remove amp.
• Custom labels: Transform visible text using regex rules

Installation

1. Open Settings → Community plugins in Obsidian.
2. Select Browse and search for Pretty URLs.
3. Select Install, then Enable.

Usage

Open Settings → Pretty URLs to configure the plugin:

• Hide protocol — https: is always stripped.
• Hide subdomains — Toggle stripping of www., mobile., etc.
• Format links in note properties — Apply formatting in the properties panel.
• Custom labels — Define regex rules to replace a URL with a custom label.

Custom labels

You can define regex rules to rewrite URL-only links with a custom label.

Each rule has a pattern (a regular expression) and a replacement (a string that may contain $1, $2, … to reference capture groups). Rules are evaluated in order; the first match wins.

The plugin ships with three example rules that are disabled by default.

How matching works

• Patterns are matched against the final pretty URL, e.g. github.com/user/repo.
• Patterns are not implicitly anchored — use ^ and $ yourself if needed.
• Matching is always case-insensitive.

License

MIT