Link Title on Paste
siulved5496 downloadsPastes a bare URL as a Markdown link with the page title, fetched in the background and undone in one step.
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Paste a web address and get a Markdown link with the page's title, [Page title](https://…), without leaving the keyboard.
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The address goes in at once, exactly as Obsidian would paste it. A moment later the plugin reads the page's title and turns the address into a link. If the page has no usable title, or cannot be reached, the address stays as it was. One Undo after the link appears gives you the bare address back.
Network use
This plugin sends web requests. To read a title it requests the page you pasted, from your device, with Obsidian's requestUrl. The site you paste sees that request, and nothing is sent anywhere else: no analytics, no third-party service. Only the first 300 KB of the page is read, and only http and https addresses are requested.
- Local and private addresses (
localhost,192.168.x.x,10.x.x.x,.local…) are never requested. - Add sites to Skipped domains and they, and their subdomains, are never requested either.
- Turn off Fetch the title when pasting a web address to use only the commands below.
What it does and does not touch
It acts only when the whole clipboard is one web address and nothing is selected. It leaves things alone when:
- you have text selected (Obsidian turns your text into a link by itself);
- you paste inside a code block, inline code, a link, a
[[wikilink]]or the properties block; - the clipboard holds anything more than one address;
- you have several cursors.
If you keep typing while the title loads, the link still lands in the right place; if you deleted or edited the address, it is left alone.
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| Paste URL with title | Pastes the address on the clipboard and adds its title. Handy on mobile, or when the automatic paste is off. |
| Fetch title for the current link | Turns the bare address under the cursor, or an empty link [](https://…), into a titled link. A link that already has text is never changed. |
| Add titles to the links in this note or selection | Finds every bare web address in the selection, or in the whole note when nothing is selected, and turns each into a titled link. |
Adding titles to a whole note
The pages are requested three at a time, with a notice showing progress ("Fetching titles: 4 of 12"). Nothing changes in the note until they are all done, and then every link is written at once, so one Undo puts all the bare addresses back. A final notice says how many titles were added and how many addresses were left as they were.
- Addresses that are already links, inside
[[wikilinks]], code (inline or fenced), the properties block, HTML tags or comments are left alone, and so are your Skipped domains and private addresses. An address in<angle brackets>is treated as a bare one. - An address that has no usable title, or cannot be reached, stays as it was.
- If you edit an address while the titles load, that one is skipped. Text you type elsewhere does not matter.
- Run the command again while it is working to cancel it. Nothing is written.
No default hotkeys; assign your own in Settings → Hotkeys.
Settings
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Fetch the title when pasting a web address | on | Read the page when you paste a lone address. |
| Skipped domains | none | One per line. These sites and their subdomains are never requested. |
Notes
- The title is the page's
<title>, falling back to itsog:titleandtwitter:title. HTML entities are decoded, whitespace is collapsed and brackets are escaped. - Pages that are not HTML (images, PDFs) and titles that only repeat the address are skipped.
- Redirects are followed by Obsidian's request layer, so a public address that redirects to a private one is not stopped, and pages are read as UTF-8 whatever their declared charset.
- If the title arrives within about half a second, Obsidian groups it with the paste into one undo step.
Installation
In Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins → Browse and search for "Link Title on Paste".
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