Clipper - YouTube Template

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Use

For this template to work, you need to open a specific YouTube video.
If you want to capture the description and transcript, you need to

click on show more to see the full description,
scroll to the end of the description and click on show transcript
before clipping the page to Obsidian.p

Effect

This template

creates a new note
gets triggered when viewing a YouTube video
pre-fixes the note title with the current date
- E.g.: "2024-11-16 Atrociraptor - Wikipedia"
Adds properties and values taken from the post
Embeds the video
Adds the video description
Adds the video transcript

Code

{
	"schemaVersion": "0.1.0",
	"name": "YouTube Embed and transcript",
	"behavior": "create",
	"noteContentFormat": "# {{title}}\n\n![{{schema:name}}]({{url|replace:\"watch?v=\":\"embed/\"}})\n\n{{selectorHtml:#description-inline-expander|remove_html:(\"#structured-description, #snippet, tp-yt-paper-button\")|strip_tags|replace:\"\\#\":\"\\#\"|callout:(\"summary\",\"Description\",true)}}\n\n{{selectorHtml:ytd-engagement-panel-section-list-renderer[visibility$=\\\"EXPANDED\\\"] #segments-container|remove_html:(\"ytd-transcript-section-header-renderer, dom-if\")|replace:(\"</ytd-transcript-segment-renderer>\":\"</ytd-transcript-segment-renderer><hr>\")|markdown|replace:(\"\\n\\n\":\" \")|replace:(\" --- \":\"\\n\")|callout:(\"note\",\"Transcript (Youtube)\",true)}} ",
	"properties": [
		{
			"name": "url",
			"value": "{{meta:property:og:url}}",
			"type": "text"
		},
		{
			"name": "title",
			"value": "{{schema:@VideoObject:name}}",
			"type": "text"
		},
		{
			"name": "channel",
			"value": "{{schema:@VideoObject:author}}",
			"type": "text"
		},
		{
			"name": "thumbnailUrl",
			"value": "{{schema:@VideoObject:thumbnailUrl|first}}",
			"type": "text"
		},
		{
			"name": "duration",
			"value": "{{schema:@VideoObject:duration|replace:\\\"PT\\\",\\\"\\\",\\\"S\\\",\\\"\\\"}}",
			"type": "text"
		},
		{
			"name": "tags",
			"value": "clippings, YouTube",
			"type": "multitext"
		},
		{
			"name": "published",
			"value": "{{schema:@VideoObject:uploadDate|date:\\\"YYYY-MM-DD\\\"}}",
			"type": "date"
		},
		{
			"name": "created",
			"value": "{{time|date:\\\"YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ\\\"}}",
			"type": "date"
		}
	],
	"triggers": [
		"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v="
	],
	"noteNameFormat": "{{date|date:\"YYYY-MM-DD\"}} {{schema:name}} - {{schema:author}}",
	"path": "00 Inbox/Clippings"
}