# Obsidian Web Clipper

> Save and highlight web pages in a private and durable format that you can access offline. The official browser extension for Obsidian.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/web-clipper-obsidian](https://chrome-stats.com/d/web-clipper-obsidian)

## Overview

- **ID:** `web-clipper-obsidian`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Obsidian
- **Category:** download-management,privacy-security,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 63,331
- **Weekly downloads:** 1,523
- **Rating:** 4.88 / 5 (289 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.7.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-23
- **First published:** 2024-09-12
- **Size:** 4.20 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/web-clipper-obsidian/)
- **Website:** [https://help.obsidian.md/web-clipper](https://help.obsidian.md/web-clipper)

## Description

Obsidian Web Clipper empowers you to save, highlight, and interpret web content seamlessly into your personal Obsidian vault for offline access. Whether it's news articles, recipes, or research papers, you can capture entire pages or selected text, preserving your highlights and annotations for future reference. Compatible with major AI model providers, it offers advanced templating and rules to extract structured metadata, ensuring your saved content is organized and customizable.

Designed with privacy and durability in mind, all your clips are stored locally in portable Markdown files within your Obsidian vault, guaranteeing no lock-in or cloud dependency. Hotkeys and filters enhance your clipping workflow, while the ability to create links between notes fosters a connected knowledge base. Obsidian Web Clipper is open source, enabling community collaboration and transparency. Experience a secure and flexible way to enrich your knowledge management with this official Obsidian browser extension.

## Rankings

- #283 — Overall
- #15 — Download Management
- #37 — Social & Communication
- #67 — Privacy & Security
- #8 — ad skipper
- #14 — web

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `scripting`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has abnormal user trend

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## Review summary

Overall, users praise Obsidian Web Clipper as a must-have tool that makes clipping and organizing notes easy, with strong templates and flexible content output. It’s repeatedly seen as essential to Obsidian workflows and to saving time. Reported drawbacks are scattered: in some cases the extension opens a new Obsidian instance rather than reusing one; full-page saves instead of metadata highlights; occasional MathJax formatting issues; and a few bugs around properties. Despite these, the add-on remains highly regarded.

### Pros

- Essential/must-have for Obsidian users.
- Powerful clipping with customizable templates.
- Improves workflow and saves time.
- High level of customization of content output and properties.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/web-clipper-obsidian)