Obsidian URL Namer

This is a plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md), that retrieves the HTML titles to name the raw URL links.

Usage

Select the text that contains the URLs to be named, execute the command Name the URL links in the selected text.

It's recommended to name few URLs at a time. In the case when the URL requests are taking some time, please DO NOT change the text selection or the content itself, before the command is done. Otherwise, the eventual result will be out of order.

Easier with the command binded to a keyboard shortcut.

Compilation

• Clone this repo.
• npm i or yarn to install dependencies
• npm run build to compile, or npm run dev to start compilation in watch mode.

Installation

• After compiled, rename the dist directory to obsidian-url-namer and move it into the vault's plugin directory VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/.

Customization

Currently the regex for URL matching is hard coded in main.ts/UrlTagger.rawUrlPattern. The built-in URL regex pattern can be tested here: https://regexr.com/6rr0c.

By default, the title is got from the <title> tag from the HTML source of the URL. However, often times, the content of a page is lazy-loaded, and the title will have to be inferred from the page-load parameters. In such cases, there needs to be site-specific title regex to deal with this.

Future Development

• Parametrize the URL regex pattern into the plugin settings.
• Parametrize site-specific title regex into the plugin settings.