likeabreeze-del/web-content-clipper

Lyon's Magic Glove is a browser extension for Chrome and Edge that is built for Chinese language knowledge work. It converts the main content of a webpage into Markdown text and saves it directly into your Obsidian notes vault. The extension has dedicated extraction logic for a set of specific sites, including Feishu, Bilibili, YouTube, Xiaohongshu, X (formerly Twitter), WeChat public accounts, and Reddit. For any other website, it falls back to a general purpose content extraction tool called Defuddle. You can clip just a selected portion of a page, capture a page that requires scrolling to load everything, save an X thread, or save page highlights. Saved notes can include frontmatter, a reading status, the author, the publish date, and other custom properties, and you can switch quickly between multiple Obsidian vaults. There are two ways the extension saves into Obsidian. The first uses Obsidian's built in URI links, which needs no extra plugin and suits short, plain text clips, though it has a length limit and cannot save binary images directly. The second uses the Local REST API community plugin for Obsidian, which supports longer articles, checking whether a file already exists, overwriting files, and saving local image attachments, including images from Feishu logins and drawing boards. In this mode, the API key needed to talk to your vault stays only on your own device's local browser storage and is not synced through any account. The project deliberately stays local first: it does not upload anything to the cloud and does not use AI to summarize or rewrite content, limiting itself to accurate extraction, format conversion, preview editing, and local saving. Setting it up for development requires Node.js 20 or 22, after which the standard npm commands build the Chrome and Edge packages. The project is based on an existing open source clipper, adapted and rebranded with the original author's permission.