Obsidian Web Clipper
Official web clipper extension for Obsidian. Clip content and save it to your Obsidian vault so you always have access to it, even offline.
What is Obsidian Web Clipper?
"Obsidian Web Clipper" is a Firefox add-on that allows users to clip and save web content directly to their Obsidian vault. Designed for offline access and data privacy, it supports clipping articles, recipes, and more. Users can create customizable templates and set smart triggers for efficient organization. All clippings are stored in clean Markdown files, ensuring no lock-in and full control over data. Perfect for researchers, students, and anyone wanting structured notes from the web.
Add-on stats
By: Obsidian
Creation date: 2024-09-12
Weekly download count: 636
Firefox on Android: Yes
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
- activeTab
- contextMenus
- storage
- scripting
Host permissions:
- http://*/*
- https://*/*
Size: 174.28K
URLs: Website
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Add-on summary
Bring the web to your personal knowledge base. Save content to your Obsidian vault so you always have access to it, even offline. Obsidian is secure, private, and designed around durable open formats that allows you to preserve your data for the long-term.
Whether you're researching for a project, saving recipes, bookmarking travel destinations, or collecting inspiring articles, the Obsidian Web Clipper helps you organize your ideas.
- Clip anything: From news articles and blog posts to recipes, product pages, and research papers — if it's on the web, you can save it.
- Select page content: Clip entire pages, selected text, or let the clipper intelligently extract just the main content.
- Customizable templates: Create tailored templates to automatically extract metadata from web pages. Perfect for academics, movie buffs, book lovers, or anyone who wants structured notes.
- Smart triggers: Set up rules to automatically apply the right template based on the website you're clipping from.
- Seamless integration: all your clips flow directly into Obsidian, in the vault and folder of your choice.
- No lock-in: All your clips are saved in clean, durable, portable Markdown files — no proprietary formats.
- Offline access: your saved clips are saved locally, and always at your fingertips, with or without an internet connection.
- 100% private: all your clipped content is stored locally in your Obsidian vault. Your thoughts are yours.
Obsidian Web Clipper is open source. You can help us improve it by submitting bugs and fixes.
User reviews
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Great user experience and functionality.
- Ability to modify templates and frontmatter on the fly.
- Eases saving of metadata from the web.
- Works well on complicated sites.
Cons
- Only clips the title without content or properties.
- Requires Early Access for mobile users, which has a cost.
- Mobile version limitations due to version discrepancies.
Most mentioned
- Great UX
- Functionality to modify templates
- Cost for mobile access
- Only clips title issue
Recent reviews
It only clips the Title. Meaning when I try to clip anything, it creates a new page in Obsidian but no properties, no content, nothing... I've tried reinstalling, deleting the default template, etc...
by Firefox user 15311564, 2024-10-31
by Chronic Sonic, 2024-10-29
by Firefox user 18652971, 2024-10-24
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Obsidian Web Clipper requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Obsidian Web Clipper may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.
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