StackTube

Sync your YouTube knowledge notes straight into your Obsidian vault.

StackTube monitors the YouTube channels you care about, runs each new video through an AI pipeline (Gemini + Claude), and turns it into a structured, searchable note. This plugin pulls those finished notes into your vault as plain Markdown — no lock‑in, you own the files.

Videos stream by. Knowledge should stack up.

What it does

• Pulls AI‑structured notes from the StackTube API into your vault on a schedule (or on demand).
• Writes clean Markdown with YAML frontmatter (video_id, channel, title, video_url, published_at, language, tags) so Dataview, graph view, and search just work.
• No duplicates — each video is written once, identified by video_id.
• Resumes where it left off after a restart.
• Ribbon icon & status bar — one‑click sync, at‑a‑glance last‑sync time and progress count.
• Sync on startup (optional) and an initial sync range (all / last 90 / last 30 days) for the very first pull.
• Your notes are ordinary .md files. Nothing is locked to this plugin.

This plugin is a thin client: all analysis happens on the StackTube server. The plugin only fetches and writes files.

Capture a frame (new in v0.2.0)

Notes with a 📷 "frame slot" (a deep-linked callout at a specific timestamp) get a Capture button in reading view. Clicking it opens a small player:

1. Watch the moment — skip the ad, seek, or pause however you like.
2. Press Capture this frame when the shot is right.
3. Confirm the preview, then Save.

The image is saved to <folder>/attachments/<video_id>-<seconds>.jpg and embedded in the note right after the slot. Re‑capturing the same slot won't duplicate the embed.

Captured frames are saved to your vault only — never uploaded to our servers. Server sync of captured frames is planned for a later release (opt-in).

You can hide the Capture buttons from Settings → StackTube → Frame capture.

Requirements

• A StackTube account with at least one monitored channel and some analyzed videos.
• A StackTube API key (Settings → Obsidian → Create new key). The key is shown once — copy it somewhere safe.

Install

From the Community Plugins (recommended, once approved)

1. Obsidian → Settings → Community plugins → Browse.
2. Search “StackTube”, install, and enable.

Beta install via BRAT

1. Install the BRAT community plugin.
2. BRAT → Add beta plugin → bije0327/obsidian-stacktube.
3. Enable StackTube in Community plugins.

Manual install

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
2. Copy them into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/stacktube/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable StackTube in Community plugins.

Setup

1. Open Settings → StackTube.
2. Paste your API key.
3. (Optional) Adjust Server URL (default https://stacktube.io), Notes folder (default StackTube), and Sync interval (minutes; 0 = manual only).
4. Click 연결 테스트 / Test connection — you should see a success notice with your plan.
5. Run StackTube: Sync new notes from the command palette, or wait for the next automatic sync.

Notes land in <folder>/<channel>/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<title>.md.

Privacy & data ownership

The plugin talks only to the server URL you configure (StackTube by default), authenticated with your API key — to pull your analyzed notes. It writes plain Markdown files into your vault — readable, portable, and yours. Your API key is stored locally in the plugin's data.json and is never logged.

Captured frames are saved to your vault only — never uploaded to our servers.

Development

npm install
npm run dev      # watch build
npm run build    # type-check + production build → main.js
node --import tsx test/run.ts   # (or bundle test/run.ts) E2E against a mock server

See test/run.ts for the end‑to‑end harness (pagination, dedup, watermark resume, frontmatter, filename safety).

License

MIT © unstackd