Link Utilities

Description

In Playnite you can assign links to your games to quickly jump to their steam page, wikipedia entry or any other site. Many metadata sources already add links to some sites, but I found them always a bit lacking. There also was no easy way to deal with duplicate links, remove those from the metadata sources, you don’t need or even sort them. Because of that I developed Link Utilities as my first and still biggest Playnite extension. The addon has the following features:

• Add links to several websites directly by trying to find a valid link using the game name.
• Search for a game on several websites to add links via search dialog.
• Open a search for a game in your web browser on supported websites.
• Add link to active website in your browser via bookmarklet. Works with any website.
• limited option for custom link profiles to add your own websites to the add or browser search function.
• Add library links: add links to the game page of its library
• Check if links are still working, with option to filter results, remove links or replace URLs in the result dialog.

To see which websites are already supported or planned to be added see the list of supported websites!

The following functions can be triggered manually for the selected games via game or playnite menu or configured to be triggered automatically after the metadata of a game changes:

• Sort links by name or custom sort order.
• Remove unwanted links (e.g. social media links added by IGDB).
• Remove duplicate links.
• Rename links (e.g. shorten wikipedia to wiki).
• Add tags to games to keep track of missing links to specific websites.

Planned features

• add links to more websites.
• blacklist games from adding “missing link” tags for specific websites.
• add support for quick search to add links or search for games with specific links
• option to remove links to manually added url mask from selected games