Obsidian plugin · For podcast and YouTube producers
Knowledge management system for podcasts and YouTube
Transform your published content into an easily searchable database that lives on your computer. Downlink is an out-of-the-box solution. Add your feed and we do the rest.
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The Downlink dashboard, rendered in an Obsidian tab.
Solutions
Built for people with a catalog.
Podcast production
Podcasting 2.0, all the way through.
Network-level RSS metadata for every show you run, with the 2.0 namespace parsed rather than skipped: chapters become a table in the note, funding targets become Support buttons, transcripts and podroll are read.
HLS playback. <podcast:alternateEnclosure> drives an adaptive video stream through hls.js, with the standard enclosure kept as the fallback. One episode, two shapes.
YouTube channel management
Search your channel without opening Studio.
Your whole catalog as notes, searchable the way your vault searches everything else — full text, instant, offline, and across shows and channels at once.
Official API only. Downlink reads titles, descriptions, handles and counts from the YouTube Data API v3 with a key you supply, held in Obsidian's encrypted keychain. No scraping, ever.
Learn moreIndividuals use it too — notes on the podcasts and channels you follow, in a vault you can publish.
Features
Everything your catalog already knows.
Downlink reads the metadata you have already published and writes it into your vault. Here is some of what comes across.
Any RSS feed
Apple Podcasts search, Podcast Index, or a feed URL pasted straight in.
YouTube channels
Full back catalog, playlists, and counts through the official Data API.
Chapters as tables
Number, title, start time, links, and artwork written into the note body.
Transcripts tracked
URL, type, language, and rel recorded so you can find the right file fast.
Play in the vault
Audio and video in the Preview panel, HLS streams included.
Bases ready
Structured frontmatter turns any show into a table you can filter.
Safe re-syncs
Episode GUIDs are logged, so updates land without duplicating notes.
Plain Markdown
Every episode is a file you can read in any editor, forever.
Works offline
Ingest needs a connection. Searching your catalog does not.
Keys in the keychain
API keys live in Obsidian's encrypted store, never in a synced config file.
Support buttons
Podcasting 2.0 funding targets become links you can actually click.
Streams by default
Media plays without filling your disk. Download only what you want to keep.
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.
Downlink is in private beta. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when it's available.
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