From 901990d6f58db7adacef1daf548072816ee83c75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tangent <rose@tangentfox.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:46:21 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] make link actually optional

---
 convert_transcript.lua | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/convert_transcript.lua b/convert_transcript.lua
index 782762b..9a3e5be 100755
--- a/convert_transcript.lua
+++ b/convert_transcript.lua
@@ -14,16 +14,20 @@ local output_file_name = title .. ".md"
 local output_file = io.open(output_file_name, "w")
 assert(output_file, "Could not open \"" .. output_file_name .. "\"")
 
-for _, line in ipairs{
+local frontmatter = {
   "---",
   "title: \"" .. title .. "\"",
   "author: \"" .. author .. "\"",
   "publisher: \"yt-transcript-tools v0.1\"",
   "---",
   "",
-  "From [" .. link .. "](" .. link .. ")",
-  "",
-} do
+}
+
+if link and #link > 0 then
+  frontmatter[#frontmatter + 1] = "From [" .. link .. "](" .. link .. ")\n"
+end
+
+for _, line in ipairs(frontmatter) do
   output_file:write(line)
   output_file:write("\n")
 end