Obsidian Web Clipper

Clip web articles directly into your vault as markdown, then ingest them into your wiki.

Install the Extension

Install Obsidian Web Clipper for your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) and connect it to your vault.

Configure Obsidian

Attachment Folder

1. Settings → Files and links
2. Set “Default location for new attachments” → “In the folder specified below”
3. Set path to: raw/assets

Image Download Hotkey

1. Install the Local Images Plus community plugin
2. Settings → Hotkeys → search “Download all remote images”
3. Bind to Cmd+Shift+D

Web Clipper Settings

1. Set “Folder” to: raw
2. Set “File name template” to: {{title|slugify}}
3. Enable “Include metadata” (adds source URL, author, date)

Workflow

1. Clip an Article

While reading a web article:

1. Click the Web Clipper extension icon
2. Select your vault
3. Verify folder is raw/
4. Click “Add to Obsidian”

2. Download Images

Open the clipped file in Obsidian:

1. Press Cmd+Shift+D
2. Images download to raw/assets/
3. Links update to local paths

3. Ingest

/ingest raw/article-name.md --vault my-research

Claude reads the article, creates wiki pages (source-note, entities, concepts), updates the index, and commits.

Tips

• Clip first, ingest later — build up a batch in raw/, ingest one at a time with Claude
• Review before ingesting — check the clipped article in Obsidian, some sites clip poorly
• The raw file is immutable — once in raw/, don’t edit it. The wiki pages are where Claude maintains knowledge
• Download images — remote URLs break over time. Local images let Claude view them directly

Troubleshooting

Problem	Fix
Clipper saves to wrong folder	Check extension settings → folder is raw
Images not downloading	Install and enable Local Images Plus plugin
Poor extraction	Use browser Reader Mode before clipping
Frontmatter conflicts	Ingest skill merges existing frontmatter with wiki-templates