permalink: web-clipper/capture
aliases:
- Obsidian Web Clipper/Capture web pages
Once you install the Web Clipper browser extension, you can access it in several ways, depending on your browser:
To save a page to Obsidian click the Add to Obsidian button.
When you open the extension, Web Clipper extracts data from the current web page following the settings in your template. You can create your own templates, and customize the output using variables and filters.
By default Web Clipper attempts to intelligently extract only the main article content, excluding other elements on the page. However, you can override this behavior in the following ways:
Ctrl/Cmd+A
to select the entire page.Web Clipper includes keyboard shortcuts you can use to speed up your workflow. To change key mappings go to Web Clipper Settings → General and follow the instructions for your browser. Mappings can be changed for all browsers except Safari which does not support editing hotkeys.
Action | macOS | Windows/Linux |
---|---|---|
Open clipper | Cmd+Shift+O |
Ctrl+Shift+O |
Quick clip | Opt+Shift+O |
Alt+Shift+O |
Toggle highlighter mode | Opt+Shift+H |
Alt+Shift+H |
The Web Clipper interface is divided into four sections:
Header functionality includes:
Footer functionality includes: