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GithubLink Extractor — Obsidian Plugin
Scan any note for external links and copy them as a list — great for building bibliographies, reference lists, or sharing resources.
Features
- Extracts all external (
http/https) links from the active note - Detects markdown links
[text](url), bare URLs, and angle-bracket links<url> - Deduplicates automatically
- Four output formats:
- Plain URLs — one per line
- Bullet List —
- https://... - Numbered List —
1. https://... - Markdown Links —
- [url](url)
- One-click Copy to Clipboard
Usage
- Open any note
- Open the Command Palette (
Ctrl+P/Cmd+P) - Run "Extract External Links from Note"
- Choose your format and click Copy to Clipboard
- Paste into another note, a bibliography generator, a spreadsheet — wherever you need it
Installation
From Obsidian Community Plugins (recommended)
- Open Settings → Community Plugins
- Search for Link Extractor
- Click Install, then Enable
Manual
- Download
main.js,manifest.json, andversions.jsonfrom the latest release - Copy them into
<YourVault>/.obsidian/plugins/link-extractor/ - Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin under Settings → Community Plugins
Development
npm install
npm run dev # watch mode
npm run build # production build