Obsidian plugin · For podcast and YouTube producers
Knowledge management system for podcasts and YouTube
Transform your published content into an easily searchable database. Simply add your feeds and we do the rest.
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Features
A complete vault out-of-the-box.
Downlink takes your already published content and with it creates a comprehensive KMS that updates automatically.
Prebuilt Bases
Pre-configured tables for visual search.
Safe re-syncs
Built-in deduplication monitoring.
Review changes
Overwriting data requires user authorization.
Streams by default
Media plays without filling your disk. Download only what you want to keep.
Solutions
Built for people with a catalog.
Podcast production
Podcasting 2.0, all the way through.
Network-level metadata for every show you run, held in your own vault. Downlink parses the 2.0 namespace rather than skipping it, and writes what it finds into notes you can search, query and keep.
Any RSS feed
Apple Podcasts search, Podcast Index, or a feed URL pasted straight in.
Chapters as tables
Number, title, start time, links, and artwork written into the note body.
Play in the vault
Audio and video in the Preview panel, HLS streams included.
Support buttons
Podcasting 2.0 funding targets become links you can actually click.
What gets parsed
alternateEnclosure
Drives HLS playback
chapters
Table in the note, tab in Preview
transcript
URL, type, language and rel
funding
A Support button per target
guid
Logged, so nothing duplicates
podping
Publish notifications
podroll
Recorded on the show note
remoteItem
Cross-feed references
Publisher intent is recorded, not overridden: locked, block, complete and new-feed-url are ingested and surfaced.
HLS playback
One episode, two shapes.
An episode keeps the standard enclosure every podcast app in the world can play, and hangs its adaptive stream off it as an alternate. Downlink sorts both into an audio slot and a video slot, then plays the right one.
HLS wins by default and falls back to the standard file if the stream fails. Tested against the Podcast Standards Project's HLS reference feed.
Chapters
The note is the record.
A chapters file becomes a table in the note body — number, title, start time, plus links and artwork where they exist. Edit a title or delete a row and that is what Downlink shows you.
When a publisher corrects a chapter after release, the feed's row grows an Update chapters button. It waits for the click. Downlink does not rewrite your notes on a schedule.
YouTube channel management
Exhaustive search without the algorithm.
Instantly search all your channels, including transcripts.
Entire channels
All videos, shorts, playlists, and artwork via YouTube's API.
Video captions
Search every word of every video.
Link RSS and YouTube feeds
Pair podcast RSS feeds and episodes with their YouTube playlist and video counterparts.
Encrypted keychain
API keys are safely stored in Obsidian's native keychain.
WHY OBSIDIAN?
Search your computer, not the cloud.
On their platforms
Search multiple apps and services.
Search listening apps, podcast websites, and YouTube separately.
Produce in the cloud.
Google Drive, Notion, Airtable... however you stay organized, you likely have limited offline capabilities.
Rent your data.
Your metadata lives on their servers, under terms and conditions they set.
In your vault
Search one place for everything you've published.
All your metadata, across podcasting and YouTube, lives on your machine.
Produce on the fly, no internet required.
Once ingested, instantly reference your previous work, even without an internet connection.
Own your data.
Your metadata lives as simple text files on your computer. If you delete Downlink, you keep your archive. Nothing to export.
Your catalog is already written. Make it searchable.
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