• 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

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.