Web Clipper - Collect everything online
Our browser extension provides an easy way to collect web pages, articles, PDF documents, bookmarks, locations, and screenshots from the Internet as simple files, making them easy to store and access later. The extension is available in the following browser stores:
Save Web Pages, Bookmarks, Screenshots, PDFs
Save any interesting content you find online directly to your computer as a file.
- Save entire web pages in MHTML, PDF, or HTML formats.
- Images from web pages saved in MHTML or HTML formats are embedded in these files, so even if an image becomes unavailable online, you can still view it.
- Save specific parts of a web page.
- Take a screenshot of the visible part of the web page.
- Save bookmarks with an integrated screenshot of the page.
- Save currently opened PDF documents.
- Directly add tags to saved content, making it searchable later in TagSpaces.
Advanced Features
- The clipping's date and time, the original URL, and a screenshot are saved in the created HTML or bookmark files.
- The saved screenshot is be used later by the desktop application as a thumbnail.
- When saving web pages displaying online maps (e.g., OpenStreetMap or Google MapsTM), the current geo-coordinates are extracted and saved as tags.
- When saving a screenshot, the domain of the web page is added as a tag alongside the current date, time, and the
screenshottag. - These automatically extracted tags make it easy to find content later in TagSpaces.
Read It Later
Saving entire web pages is much better than just bookmarking them.
- Read the content in its original form, not a potentially altered version.
- No more bookmarks leading to dead links.
- Access the content even when you're offline.
Open Source
The extension is open source, and its code is available on GitHub, published under the AGPLv3 license. Anyone can inspect the code, and we welcome pull requests with new features or improvements. Bugs are tracked using GitHub's issue tracker.
Wrapping Up
The browser extensions are a valuable addition to the TagSpaces desktop application, offering a seamless way to collect and organize content from the web locally. However, the basic functionality of the web clipper is completely independent of the TagSpaces desktop app, meaning it can also be used with other applications that support HTML, MHTML, PNG, PDF, or URL files.