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Obsidian Web Clipper Bookmarklet to save articles and pages from the web (for Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and mobile browsers)

By @kepano

Visit my website to see a demo and find more information about this project.

Now available as a browser extension

Obsidian Web Clipper is now available as a browser extension, which makes it more customizable and solves issues related to running third-party scripts on web pages.

I originally created Obsidian Web Clipper as a bookmarklet in 2021. The bookmarklet is still available below for archival purposes, or if you prefer not to install browser extensions.

Bookmarklet

Installation

Create a new bookmark in your browser, then copy/paste the minified code below into the URL field.

You can customize the output using the optional variables at the top, and the template at the bottom. The default template is designed for use with the Dataview plugin. If you make changes I recommend using Bookmarklet Maker to minify and URI encode the bookmarklet.

Usage

By default, clicking the bookmarklet creates a new Obsidian file from the main body of the article (similar to Readability view). Alternatively you can choose to create a file from a selection, by either selecting all (CMD+A), or just a portion of the page.

Any images in the content will be embedded as external references. If you want to download images locally you can use the Local Images plugin which allows you to download images for a note.

Troubleshooting

This bookmarklet may not work on all websites. If you run into issues, you can also try the MarkDownload browser extension which provides similar functionality. You can troubleshoot issues by opening the Developer Console in your browser and checking if any errors appear when you click the bookmarklet. The most common error is that a website or the browser itself is blocking third party code execution. Unfortunately there is no good solve for that yet.

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 = "Clippings/";
/* Optional tags */
let tags = "clippings";
/* Parse the site's meta keywords content into tags, if present */
if (document.querySelector('meta[name="keywords" i]')) {
var keywords = document.querySelector('meta[name="keywords" i]').getAttribute('content').split(',');
keywords.forEach(function(keyword) {
let tag = ' ' + keyword.split(' ').join('');
tags += tag;
});
}
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}='${value}']`);
return element ? element.getAttribute("content").trim() : "";
}
// Fetch byline, meta author, property author, or site name
var author = byline || getMetaContent("name", "author") || getMetaContent("property", "author") || getMetaContent("property", "og:site_name");
// Check if there's an author and add brackets
var authorBrackets = author ? `"[[${author}]]"` : "";
/* 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'
+ 'category: "[[Clippings]]"\n'
+ 'author: ' + authorBrackets + '\n'
+ 'title: "' + title + '"\n'
+ 'source: ' + document.URL + '\n'
+ 'clipped: ' + today + '\n'
+ 'published: ' + published + '\n'
+ 'topics: \n'
+ 'tags: [' + tags + ']\n'
+ '---\n\n'
+ markdownBody ;
document.location.href = "obsidian://new?"
+ "file=" + encodeURIComponent(folder + fileName)
+ "&content=" + encodeURIComponent(fileContent)
+ vaultName ;
})
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@leotulipan
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leotulipan commented Oct 17, 2022

On my Windows 10 with Google Chrome I had to add this to the registry and then it works.

Got the tip via this thread and used the Obsidian Clipper Maker

obsidan-allow.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\AutoOpenAllowedForURLs]
"1"="obsidian://"

@stormer
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stormer commented Oct 24, 2022

This is working great in Chrome but I'm wondering whether it's possible to get it working in Safari - I've tried the same procedure in Safari but to no avail.

@wealthychef1
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This is working great in Chrome but I'm wondering whether it's possible to get it working in Safari - I've tried the same procedure in Safari but to no avail.

I use it in Safari every day...

@stormer
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stormer commented Oct 24, 2022

@wealthychef1, maybe it's a Mac thing (I'm on a Mac). Still working great in Chrome but in Safari the load bar starts but then gets stuck.

@robertkstarr
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I'm getting an error on some websites because the titles can't contain certain characters. Is there a regex expression you can insert somewhere to prevent that error?

@wealthychef1
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@wealthychef1, maybe it's a Mac thing (I'm on a Mac). Still working great in Chrome but in Safari the load bar starts but then gets stuck.

I'm using Safari Version 16.0 (17614.1.25.9.10, 17614) on MacOS Monterey 12.6

@sfield541
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How can I fix the errors found in my developers console? The web clippings do not save. Thanks

@Write
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Write commented Oct 30, 2022

How can I fix the errors found in my developers console? The web clippings do not save. Thanks
Can you post your console logs ?

I'm afraid it's a CSP issue, then it's not fixable.

@vitr
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vitr commented Nov 6, 2022

Sorry for the irrelevant issue, but why does the bookmarklet not work with this page or any other gist or GitHub page?

@alessandro-fazzi
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Sorry for the irrelevant issue, but why does the bookmarklet not work with this page or any other gist or GitHub page?

@vitr That's the same answer as in https://gist.github.com/kepano/90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987ca3?permalink_comment_id=4352531#gistcomment-4352531

GitHub's CSPs cannot be "bypassed" w/o using a server side. I had to wrote a personal webservice in order to make this work w/ GitHub and some other sites (https://github.com/pioneerskies/downmark#backstory-and-credits JFYI)

P.S.: Heroku is going to shut down free tier hosting, so don't think to use my experimental publix webservice: it will be shut down and maybe moved away sooner than later

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vitr commented Nov 8, 2022

thanks, I guess, browser extensions (e.g. https://github.com/deathau/markdownload) work with any page, as they have full access to the content

@alessandro-fazzi
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thanks, I guess, browser extensions (e.g. https://github.com/deathau/markdownload) work with any page, as they have full access to the content

You're right @vitr (AFAIK)! If that fits your flow, than it seems a sturdy option to me

@camayl
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camayl commented Dec 21, 2022

Hi, thanks for this great plugin! I have a small issue. Somehow images are not exported to Obsidian from voxeu (an economics website). I tried different articles from there, but they always export without pics. Here is an example site: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/addressing-uks-public-finances-after-mini-budget-crisis

Any way to remedy this?

@frenksisco
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I just can't get this bookmarklet to work with any of the sites I read.
When I click it absolutely nothing happens. No notes appear in obsidian. I use Brave browser.
"MarkDownload" and "Obsidian Web" extensions for chrome work.

@shutterkurt
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thanks for creating this - one FYI for chrome on Android. I was running into a max length issue for the generated bookmarklet URI. Seems like URI couldn't be > 5000 characters (when pasting in the javascript code, the text box (?) was limiting the # of characters allowed, truncating to about 5000 chars). So nothing worked - no clipping nor errors.

I didn't spend too much time but my workaround was to delete/modify a couple things from javascript (content template, comments) and re generate with the bookmarklet maker linked above. Now generated is ~4800 chars and whole pages seem to work but not selected subset. Good enough for me at the moment. (Android 12, samsung tablet)

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kvdogan commented Mar 22, 2023

Thanks for sharing this, i had faced one problems with the script by @kepano for generating markdown for long pages, it was silently failing and the way few characters clipped with the implementation of @skelly-larry . I used implemetation from @kepano, @jordanwiseman and @skelly-larry as input (thanks to all of them) and improved the script by removing character limitation for full page clipping with the aid of advanced uri plugin, meaning Obsidian Advanced URI plugin must be installed and enabled. Also selected range of text and tagging work as good as other implementations. Tested on Chrome and Firefox with no issue. Hope that helps to those who have not made the previous implementations work for them and those who have been looking for a full scale implementation.

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 = "";

    /* Optional tags  */
    let tags = "clippings";

    /* parse and lightly clean the site's meta keywords content into tags, if present */
    if (document.querySelector('meta[name="keywords" i]')) {
        var keywords = document.querySelector('meta[name="keywords" i]').getAttribute('content').split(',');

        keywords.forEach(function (keyword) {
            let tag = ' ' + keyword.split(' ').join('');
            tags += tag;
        });
    }

    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);

    /* YAML front matter as tags render cleaner with special chars  */
    const fileContent =
        "---\n"
        + "author:    " + byline + "\n"
        + "title:     [" + title + "]\n"
        + "source:    " + document.URL + "\n"
        + "clip date: " + today + "\n"
        + "published: \n\n"
        + "tags:      [" + tags + "]\n"
        + "---\n\n"
        + markdownBody
        + "\n\n---\n" + String(markdownBody.length) + " chars clipped from "
        + "[" + title + "](" + document.URL + ")\n";


    // This function must be called in a visible page, such as a browserAction popup
    // or a content script. Calling it in a background page has no effect!
    async function copyContent() {
        try {
            await navigator.clipboard.writeText(fileContent);
        } catch (err) {
            console.error('Failed to copy: ', err);
        }
    }

    copyContent();

    document.location.href = "obsidian://advanced-uri?"
        + "vault=" + vaultName
        + "&clipboard=true"
        + "&mode=new"
        + "&filepath=" + encodeURIComponent(folder + fileName);

})

@fabioscarsi
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But could I launch any of your scripts through Keyboard Maestro? I'm not a coder. Sorry if the question was silly.

@yagmurx
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yagmurx commented Nov 16, 2023

Hi, thanks for awesome codes! I am an Arc Browser user and bookmarklet doesn't work for me. I turn it an extension (dev-mode) by using this page, want to share everyone.
Bookmarklet2Extension:https://sandbox.self.li/bookmarklet-to-extension/

@pascalandy
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Awesome, thank you very much !

@philips
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philips commented Nov 28, 2023

With content security policy enforcement in Safari this needs to embed the packages instead of importing them. My gist over here fixes it:

https://gist.github.com/philips/8f4e93cb2be2428344ece63aecca7941

https://github.blog/2013-04-19-content-security-policy/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP

[Error] Refused to load https://unpkg.com/turndown@6.0.0?module because it does not appear in the script-src directive of the Content Security Policy.
[Error] Refused to load https://unpkg.com/@tehshrike/readability@0.2.0 because it does not appear in the script-src directive of the Content Security Policy.

@src4026
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src4026 commented Dec 3, 2023

Hi, I wanted to post an "Issue" regarding the plugin.
I've been using it for a while and it's amazing! However, I have found that sometimes when it clips webpages that have a ? in their title (this could extend to other reserved characters as well), it grabs the same and sets it as the title. This brought up some issues where Obsidian and other programs behaved weirdly. Removing the question mark solved the problem. It would be nice to have to not clip these characters.

@Maahantuoja
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Hi, I'm using the opera browser, but I can't get this to work properly. If I capture only some part of the page content then everything goes ok, but if I try to capture the whole page then it just closes the tab, but doesn't save anything.

I greatly appreciate it if someone could help me with this problem.

@bramhooimeijer
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Hi!

A small bug in the gist:

      fileName = fileName.replace(':', '').replace(/\//g, '-').replace(/\\/g, '-');

Here you only replace the first occurence of :, leaving the rest as a possible issue.

      fileName = fileName.replace(/:/g, '').replace(/\//g, '-').replace(/\\/g, '-');

Should fix that.

@Jerwins
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Jerwins commented Jan 30, 2024

On my Windows 10 with Google Chrome I had to add this to the registry and then it works.

Got the tip via this thread and used the Obsidian Clipper Maker

obsidan-allow.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\AutoOpenAllowedForURLs]
"1"="obsidian://"

Thanks, this worked.

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KernelBypass commented Jan 30, 2024

With content security policy enforcement in Safari this needs to embed the packages instead of importing them. My gist over here fixes it:

https://gist.github.com/philips/8f4e93cb2be2428344ece63aecca7941

https://github.blog/2013-04-19-content-security-policy/ https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP

[Error] Refused to load https://unpkg.com/turndown@6.0.0?module because it does not appear in the script-src directive of the Content Security Policy. [Error] Refused to load https://unpkg.com/@tehshrike/readability@0.2.0 because it does not appear in the script-src directive of the Content Security Policy.

Kepano's OG script works fine for me in MacOS Safari, but yours doesn't seem to fit into the bookmark's address field even when minified.

  1. Am I doing something incorrectly? I copy your gist -> https://caiorss.github.io/bookmarklet-maker/ -> insert into a bookmark. Pretty straightforward, but yours won't paste fully.
  2. What is the Safari content security policy enforcement issue contingent upon? Because I do not seem to have that issue.

Both work great in Firefox though.

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dbdennis commented Feb 9, 2024

On my Windows 10 with Google Chrome I had to add this to the registry and then it works.
Got the tip via this thread and used the Obsidian Clipper Maker
obsidan-allow.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\AutoOpenAllowedForURLs]
"1"="obsidian://"

Thanks, this worked.

Thank you so much for this excellent clipper!! It is working wonderfully with chrome and two macbooks. It isn't working on chrome and a Windows 10 setup. I did these steps and there are no errors in the Developers Console when I run the original "Clip in Obsidian" or a modified one from the Maker (specifying a Vault and Clippings folder). Again, both work perfectly on Macs. But even though it is clean on the chrome console on the Windows machine (helping a friend), Obsidian doesn't open and the page isn't copied. (If I just do `obsidian://' in the chrome url bar, it does open, so I don't think it is a security setting.)

Any suggestions highly appreciated!

@jmiralva
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Hi, thanks for awesome codes! I am an Arc Browser user and bookmarklet doesn't work for me. I turn it an extension (dev-mode) by using this page, want to share everyone. Bookmarklet2Extension:https://sandbox.self.li/bookmarklet-to-extension/

@yagmurx does this still work for you? i'm trying to use it now but can't get it to work. any tips? thanks!

@aREversez
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It works well with FireFox, but doesn't work with my Chrome. I don't know why..

@aREversez
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On my Windows 10 with Google Chrome I had to add this to the registry and then it works.

Got the tip via this thread and used the Obsidian Clipper Maker

obsidan-allow.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome\AutoOpenAllowedForURLs]
"1"="obsidian://"

I tried but it still didn't work. Do you know why?

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