How to use Douyin to Obsidian: what you can do with it

3 use cases

• Import one Douyin video or image post into Obsidian

  Send one Douyin link to /dy in cc-connect and get a sourced knowledge note in your vault.

  • REPO llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian
  • Claude Code
  • Research
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  Using the repo llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian, install the /dy skill into the cc-connect workspace at <workspace path> with the vault at <vault path>, then run doctor. Once doctor reports ok true, import the Douyin work at <douyin-link> and report the new note path. Verify that the note contains the original work link and that the import log has a new entry.

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• Sync a Douyin favorites folder into your vault

  Name a favorites folder in /dy and import only the works not yet in your vault.

  • REPO llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian
  • Claude Code
  • Research
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  Using the repo llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian, list the favorites folders available through /dy --list, then import only the new works from the folder named <folder name>. Report how many works were added, how many were skipped as duplicates and each failed link. Verify that no existing note was overwritten by checking the vault for unchanged files.

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• Import several Douyin links in one /dy command

  Send multiple Douyin links at once, merge duplicates, and update the vault in one run.

  • REPO llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian
  • Claude Code
  • Research
  • Intermediate
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  Using the repo llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian, send one /dy command in the cc-connect workspace at <workspace path> containing these links: <link list>. Report the created notes, the merged duplicates and any failures with their retry commands. Verify that the knowledge index and import log in <vault path> were updated.

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Quick start with Douyin to Obsidian

1. Check you have what it needs: Apple Silicon Mac; Intel Mac, Windows and Linux are not fully supported; Python 3.12 and a locally runnable Node.js; Xcode Command Line Tools (xcrun and Swift) for OCR.
2. Open llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian on GitHub and read the README and license.
3. Run xcode-select --install if Command Line Tools are not installed yet.
4. Clone the repository with git clone https://github.com/llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian.git and enter the folder with cd douyin-to-obsidian.
5. Set DY_PYTHON, DY_WORKSPACE, DY_VAULT and DY_PROFILE to your absolute paths, then run scripts/install.py with --workspace, --vault and --browser-profile as shown in section 3.
6. Run "$DY_WORKSPACE/.claude/skills/douyin-to-obsidian/.venv/bin/python" -B "$DY_WORKSPACE/.claude/skills/douyin-to-obsidian/scripts/doctor.py" and confirm ok is true. (inferred, check the README)

These steps come from our top use case, Import one Douyin video or image post into Obsidian, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian

claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp

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About this repo

• Who it is forMac users who run cc-connect with Claude Code and keep a personal Obsidian vault, and who want to save Douyin material as searchable notes.
• Why it is hot100 stars, launched 4 days ago, picked up by one AI source we track
• LanguagePython
• Sourcegithub.com/llm-xiaoye/douyin-to-obsidian · Back to Hot repos

Requirements

• Apple Silicon Mac; Intel Mac, Windows and Linux are not fully supported
• Python 3.12 and a locally runnable Node.js
• Xcode Command Line Tools (xcrun and Swift) for OCR
• Chrome installed and logged in to Douyin in the profile you configure, for private favorites
• A cc-connect instance configured with Claude Code and a working model and channel
• An existing Obsidian vault that you can read and write

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