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Obsidian Web Clipper Bookmarklet to save articles and pages from the web (for Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and mobile browsers)
javascript: Promise.all([import('https://unpkg.com/turndown@6.0.0?module'), import('https://unpkg.com/@tehshrike/readability@0.2.0'), ]).then(async ([{
default: Turndown
}, {
default: Readability
}]) => {
/* Optional vault name */
const vault = "";
/* Optional folder name such as "Clippings/" */
const folder = "Bookmarks/";
function getSelectionHtml() {
var html = "";
if (typeof window.getSelection != "undefined") {
var sel = window.getSelection();
if (sel.rangeCount) {
var container = document.createElement("div");
for (var i = 0, len = sel.rangeCount; i < len; ++i) {
container.appendChild(sel.getRangeAt(i).cloneContents());
}
html = container.innerHTML;
}
} else if (typeof document.selection != "undefined") {
if (document.selection.type == "Text") {
html = document.selection.createRange().htmlText;
}
}
return html;
}
const selection = getSelectionHtml();
const {
title,
byline,
content
} = new Readability(document.cloneNode(true)).parse();
function getFileName(fileName) {
var userAgent = window.navigator.userAgent,
platform = window.navigator.platform,
windowsPlatforms = ['Win32', 'Win64', 'Windows', 'WinCE'];
if (windowsPlatforms.indexOf(platform) !== -1) {
fileName = fileName.replace(':', '').replace(/[/\\?%*|"<>]/g, '-');
} else {
fileName = fileName.replace(':', '').replace(/\//g, '-').replace(/\\/g, '-');
}
return fileName;
}
const fileName = getFileName(title);
if (selection) {
var markdownify = selection;
} else {
var markdownify = content;
}
if (vault) {
var vaultName = '&vault=' + encodeURIComponent(`${vault}`);
} else {
var vaultName = '';
}
const markdownBody = new Turndown({
headingStyle: 'atx',
hr: '---',
bulletListMarker: '-',
codeBlockStyle: 'fenced',
emDelimiter: '*',
}).turndown(markdownify);
var date = new Date();
function convertDate(date) {
var yyyy = date.getFullYear().toString();
var mm = (date.getMonth()+1).toString();
var dd = date.getDate().toString();
var mmChars = mm.split('');
var ddChars = dd.split('');
return yyyy + '-' + (mmChars[1]?mm:"0"+mmChars[0]) + '-' + (ddChars[1]?dd:"0"+ddChars[0]);
}
const today = convertDate(date);
// Utility function to get meta content by name or property
function getMetaContent(attr, value) {
var element = document.querySelector(`meta[${attr}='${value}']`);
return element ? element.getAttribute("content").trim() : "";
}
// Fetch byline, meta author, property author, or site name
var author = byline || getMetaContent("name", "author") || getMetaContent("property", "author") || getMetaContent("property", "og:site_name");
/* Try to get published date */
var timeElement = document.querySelector("time");
var publishedDate = timeElement ? timeElement.getAttribute("datetime") : "";
if (publishedDate && publishedDate.trim() !== "") {
var date = new Date(publishedDate);
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1; // Months are 0-based in JavaScript
var day = date.getDate();
// Pad month and day with leading zeros if necessary
month = month < 10 ? '0' + month : month;
day = day < 10 ? '0' + day : day;
var published = year + '-' + month + '-' + day;
} else {
var published = ''
}
/* YAML front matter as tags render cleaner with special chars */
const fileContent =
'---\n'
+ 'author: ' + author + '\n'
+ 'title: "' + title + '"\n'
+ 'source: ' + document.URL + '\n'
+ 'clipped: ' + today + '\n'
+ 'published: ' + published + '\n'
+ 'tags:\n'
+ ' - bookmark\n'
+ '---\n\n'
+ markdownBody ;
document.location.href = "obsidian://new?"
+ "file=" + encodeURIComponent(folder + fileName)
+ "&content=" + encodeURIComponent(fileContent)
+ vaultName ;
})
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