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08. Obsidian personal library + media library

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  • Personal library / media library douban images broken? How to build your own personal library when douban image links stop working A setup guide for a personal library and media (movies/TV) library

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I used to build a library and a media library inside Obsidian — the Library and Watch List on my blog were inspired by that setup. Main steps: install the plugin → set up a template → display the page.

Display options

  • dataview
  • bases Issues with bases
  • it starts to look messy once there’s a lot of information
  • it can’t show everything you need on a single page

douban used to let you build and display a full book/movie library, but later it likely tightened its hotlink protection — so when you import metadata, the images break and won’t display. Here are the alternatives I found:

  • booksearch — can import English-language books
  • Media-DB — can import movies / TV series / music / books, etc. Note: when setting up templates, they won’t take effect without the .md extension
    • movieTemplate: “10.Template/影视.md”
    • seriesTemplate: “10.Template/影视.md”
  • If none of the above plugins can find the metadata you need, you can import the metadata with douban first, then find and replace the images yourself from the web page
  • If the images are downloaded locally, you need to modify the dataview query code so it supports both remote URLs and local paths

Required plugins

  • douban

  • templater

  • dataview

  • booksearch

  • Media DB

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