About Obsidian Web Clipper
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...
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. As with everything Obsidian, Web Clipper is designed to protect your privacy, and give you control over your data. - 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 helps you create connections and links between your notes so you can organize your thoughts. You can create links between everything - ideas, articles, lists, locations, books - anything you can put in a note, you can link to other notes.
Version History New app icon. 1.6.3 May 26 Fix embedded mode bug where content is not passed to clipboard. 1.6.2 Apr 23 - Reader: Fix outline active position - Highlights: Improve search - Update highlights page more smoothly - Update to Defuddle 0.18.1, fixes footnotes on Wikipedia 1.6.1 Apr 22 Improved - Highlighter improves UX and adds better support for mobile. - Defuddle 0.18 with extractors for LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Discourse, Medium Fixes - Reader: Fix scroll locking on some sites. - Fix selecting vault in popup. 1.6.0 Apr 22 New - Highlights viewer Improved - Fade in transition into Reader - Improve YouTube play/pause - Fix YouTube CJK line endings 1.5.0 Apr 15 New: - YouTube transcript UI provides an interactive transcript that lets you pin the video, scrub through the transcript, auto-scroll, and highlight the current position. - Open in Reader lets you set the default open behavior to Reader mode so you can get there in one click using the extension button. Improved: - Defuddle 0.16 - Lazy-load highlights - Reader: Fix font detection. 1.4.0 Apr 10 You can now customize the Reader experience to your liking with settings for: - Typography, fonts, line height and width - Themes, light/dark appearance - Custom CSS Improved: - Reader: Comments on sites like Reddit and Hacker News now have a threaded interactive UI. - Reader: Added to context menu. - Translations: Khmer, Hungarian, Portuguese, Slovak. - Upgraded to Defuddle 0.15]. - New Settings UI to match Obsidian . - Safari: Fix copy to clipboard. - Safari: Improve recovery after extension upgrade. - Fix error message on browser extension store pages. 1.3.0 Apr 2 Upgrade to Defuddle 0.14 1.2.1 Mar 17 - Add {{language}} variable to get page language - Add {{transcript}} variable (only for YouTube currently) - Update to Defuddle 0.13 1.2.0 Mar 13 - Add Reader mode - Add transcripts to YouTube in the {{content}} and new {{transcript}} variable - Switch to Defuddle's built-in Markdown converter 1.1.0 Mar 11 Fix quote-stripping regex in filters to handle newline characters. Fixes the issue with using map filter in highlights example. 1.0.2 Feb 27 New - Add message if clipboard doesn't work - Add `decode_uri` filter Improved - String literal maps now return plain strings instead of {str: ...} wrapper objects. The template filter still supports ${str} for backwards compatibility. - Treat unquoted filter args as string literals when no matching variable exists, support unquoted date format in date filter #694 - Make `src` URLs on video & audio elements absolute Fixes - Fix for multiple replacements - Fix normalize ISO 8601 duration components correctly 1.0.1 Feb 25 New - New template logic for conditionals, loops, and variable assignment. - New template validation in the template editor checks for syntax errors. - Add context menu option to copy Markdown to clipboard. Improved - Update to Defuddle 0.7.0 with better support for X articles and more. 1.0.0 Feb 15 New - Import multiple templates at once Improved - Fix for null Schema.org data - Force opening via popup (not embedded mode) on mobile Safari - Fix issue with bad provider names and possible corruption of settings - Updated Japanese translation - Another attempt at fixing the default locales bug on Safari - Remove uses of innerHTML 0.12.0 09/28/2025 New {{selection}} and {{selectionHtml}} variables for selected text Improved - Update to Defuddle 0.6.6 - Fix issue with srcset images (e.g. on Substack) - Fix Properties section remembering the collapsed state - Fix Interpreter context field not consistently appearing - Fix for temperature parameter issue - Wrap property names that contain special characters to ensure compliant YAML 0.11.9 08/15/2025 This update mostly reverts back to the old highlighter behavior (before 0.11.6) due to some issues with the new approach. Improvements - Localization for shortcuts - Fix editing custom providers - Fix remove_attr does not remove the whole attribute if it includes spaces - Upgraded to Defuddle 0.6.4 with fixes for Substack and other sites 0.11.8 05/20/2025 - Upgraded parsing to Defuddle 0.6.2. - If image filter input is an array the output is also returned as an array. 0.11.7 04/17/2025 - Revamped highlighter mode, now works much more easily for highlighting text. Highlights are saved in a more robust format similar to text fragments URLs. - Added Link button in highlighter mode that allows sharing a URL that includes the highlighted text as a text fragment parameters. Improved - Fix getting extractors for certain sites, e.g. ChatGPT. 0.11.6 04/11/2025 Upgrade to Defuddle 0.6.0, improves capturing websites, images, and adds better support for Gemini chats 0.11.4 04/09/2025 - Added built-in support for saving ChatGPT and Claude chats - Improved code block and footnote extraction 0.11.3 03/26/2025 - Added {{words}} preset variable for word count. Improved - Fixed primary button not triggering in side panel mode. - Upgraded to Defuddle 0.3.3 which includes many improvements for accurately getting the content of pages, with many improvements for code blocks and math. - Fixed indenting nested list items. 0.11.2 03/19/2025 - Added new save behavior setting that allows default save action to be changed to copy to clipboard or save to file - Added support for converting callouts on GitHub - Added extractor for Hacker News threads - Added Perplexity as a preset provider Improved - Fixed missing domain variable - Upgraded Defuddle with fixes for code blocks 0.11.1 03/13/2025 New - Added translations for Bengali, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Improved - Fixed Interpreter bug with newlines. 0.10.8 01/26/2025 - Added new Overwrite note behavior for templates. - Added Activity chart to Settings page. Improved - Revamped Interpreter configuration with popular models and links to model lists. - Ollama 403 error text gives more useful instructions. - Ollama no longer requires API key. - Fixed issue with certain Anthropic prompts. - safe_name should not exceed maximum file name length. 0.10.7 01/16/2025 New - Added Hugging Face and Deepseek API support for Interpreter - Added KaTeX support - Added Bengali and Catalan localizations Improvements - Longer context length for Ollama - Improved language detection for code blocks - Improved handling line breaks in code blocks - Improved handling footnotes and citations - Fixed capturing code blocks in WeChat articles - Fixed issue with URLs that contain x.com - Refined German UI strings 0.10.6 01/11/2025
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Obsidian Web Clipper since it was posted on our website on 2026-02-17 03:34:47.
The latest version is 1.6.3 and it was updated on 2026-06-27 03:06:33. See below the changes in each version.
Obsidian Web Clipper version 1.6.3
Updated At: 2026-06-06
Changes: Version History New app icon. 1.6.3 May 26 Fix embedded mode bug where content is not passed to clipboard. 1.6.2 Apr 23 - Reader: Fix outline active position
- Highlights: Improve search
- Update highlights page more smoothly
- Update to Defuddle 0.18.1, fixes footnotes on Wikipedia 1.6.1 Apr 22 Improved
- Highlighter improves UX and adds better support for mobile.
- Defuddle 0.18 with extractors for LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Discourse, Medium
Fixes
- Reader: Fix scroll locking on some sites.
- Fix selecting vault in popup. 1.6.0 Apr 22 New
- Highlights viewer
Improved
- Fade in transition into Reader
- Improve YouTube play/pause
- Fix YouTube CJK line endings 1.5.0 Apr 15 New:
- YouTube transcript UI provides an interactive transcript that lets you pin the video, scrub through the transcript, auto-scroll, and highlight the current position.
- Open in Reader lets you set the default open behavior to Reader mode so you can get there in one click using the extension button.
Improved:
- Defuddle 0.16
- Lazy-load highlights
- Reader: Fix font detection. 1.4.0 Apr 10 You can now customize the Reader experience to your liking with settings for:
- Typography, fonts, line height and width
- Themes, light/dark appearance
- Custom CSS
Improved:
- Reader: Comments on sites like Reddit and Hacker News now have a threaded interactive UI.
- Reader: Added to context menu.
- Translations: Khmer, Hungarian, Portuguese, Slovak.
- Upgraded to Defuddle 0.15].
- New Settings UI to match Obsidian .
- Safari: Fix copy to clipboard.
- Safari: Improve recovery after extension upgrade.
- Fix error message on browser extension store pages. 1.3.0 Apr 2 Upgrade to Defuddle 0.14 1.2.1 Mar 17 - Add {{language}} variable to get page language
- Add {{transcript}} variable (only for YouTube currently)
- Update to Defuddle 0.13 1.2.0 Mar 13 - Add Reader mode
- Add transcripts to YouTube in the {{content}} and new {{transcript}} variable
- Switch to Defuddle's built-in Markdown converter 1.1.0 Mar 11 Fix quote-stripping regex in filters to handle newline characters. Fixes the issue with using map filter in highlights example. 1.0.2 Feb 27 New
- Add message if clipboard doesn't work
- Add `decode_uri` filter
Improved
- String literal maps now return plain strings instead of {str: ...} wrapper objects. The template filter still supports ${str} for backwards compatibility.
- Treat unquoted filter args as string literals when no matching variable exists, support unquoted date format in date filter #694
- Make `src` URLs on video & audio elements absolute
Fixes
- Fix for multiple replacements
- Fix normalize ISO 8601 duration components correctly 1.0.1 Feb 25 New
- New template logic for conditionals, loops, and variable assignment.
- New template validation in the template editor checks for syntax errors.
- Add context menu option to copy Markdown to clipboard.
Improved
- Update to Defuddle 0.7.0 with better support for X articles and more. 1.0.0 Feb 15 New
- Import multiple templates at once
Improved
- Fix for null Schema.org data
- Force opening via popup (not embedded mode) on mobile Safari
- Fix issue with bad provider names and possible corruption of settings
- Updated Japanese translation
- Another attempt at fixing the default locales bug on Safari
- Remove uses of innerHTML 0.12.0 09/28/2025 New {{selection}} and {{selectionHtml}} variables for selected text
Improved
- Update to Defuddle 0.6.6
- Fix issue with srcset images (e.g. on Substack)
- Fix Properties section remembering the collapsed state
- Fix Interpreter context field not consistently appearing
- Fix for temperature parameter issue
- Wrap property names that contain special characters to ensure compliant YAML 0.11.9 08/15/2025 This update mostly reverts back to the old highlighter behavior (before 0.11.6) due to some issues with the new approach.
Improvements
- Localization for shortcuts
- Fix editing custom providers
- Fix remove_attr does not remove the whole attribute if it includes spaces
- Upgraded to Defuddle 0.6.4 with fixes for Substack and other sites 0.11.8 05/20/2025 - Upgraded parsing to Defuddle 0.6.2.
- If image filter input is an array the output is also returned as an array. 0.11.7 04/17/2025 - Revamped highlighter mode, now works much more easily for highlighting text. Highlights are saved in a more robust format similar to text fragments URLs.
- Added Link button in highlighter mode that allows sharing a URL that includes the highlighted text as a text fragment parameters.
Improved
- Fix getting extractors for certain sites, e.g. ChatGPT. 0.11.6 04/11/2025 Upgrade to Defuddle 0.6.0, improves capturing websites, images, and adds better support for Gemini chats 0.11.4 04/09/2025 - Added built-in support for saving ChatGPT and Claude chats
- Improved code block and footnote extraction 0.11.3 03/26/2025 - Added {{words}} preset variable for word count.
Improved
- Fixed primary button not triggering in side panel mode.
- Upgraded to Defuddle 0.3.3 which includes many improvements for accurately getting the content of pages, with many improvements for code blocks and math.
- Fixed indenting nested list items. 0.11.2 03/19/2025 - Added new save behavior setting that allows default save action to be changed to copy to clipboard or save to file
- Added support for converting callouts on GitHub
- Added extractor for Hacker News threads
- Added Perplexity as a preset provider
Improved
- Fixed missing domain variable
- Upgraded Defuddle with fixes for code blocks 0.11.1 03/13/2025 New
- Added translations for Bengali, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
Improved
- Fixed Interpreter bug with newlines. 0.10.8 01/26/2025 - Added new Overwrite note behavior for templates.
- Added Activity chart to Settings page.
Improved
- Revamped Interpreter configuration with popular models and links to model lists.
- Ollama 403 error text gives more useful instructions.
- Ollama no longer requires API key.
- Fixed issue with certain Anthropic prompts.
- safe_name should not exceed maximum file name length. 0.10.7 01/16/2025 New
- Added Hugging Face and Deepseek API support for Interpreter
- Added KaTeX support
- Added Bengali and Catalan localizations
Improvements
- Longer context length for Ollama
- Improved language detection for code blocks
- Improved handling line breaks in code blocks
- Improved handling footnotes and citations
- Fixed capturing code blocks in WeChat articles
- Fixed issue with URLs that contain x.com
- Refined German UI strings 0.10.6 01/11/2025
Obsidian Web Clipper version 1.0.0
Updated At: 2026-02-15
Changes: New
- New template logic for conditionals, loops, and variable assignment.
- New template validation in the template editor checks for syntax errors.
- Add context menu option to copy Markdown to clipboard.
Improved
- Update to Defuddle 0.7.0 with better support for X articles and more.
Obsidian Web Clipper version 1.2.1
Updated At: 1970-01-01
Changes: Upgrade to Defuddle 0.14
Obsidian Web Clipper version 1.1.0
Updated At: 1970-01-01
Changes: - Add Reader mode
- Add transcripts to YouTube in the {{content}} and new {{transcript}} variable
- Switch to Defuddle's built-in Markdown converter
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