Obsidian Web Clipper Bookmarklet to save articles and pages from the web (for Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and mobile browsers)

obsidian-web-clipper.js

javascript: Promise.all([import('https://unpkg.com/[email protected]?module'), import('https://unpkg.com/@tehshrike/[email protected]'), ]).then(async ([{
    default: Turndown
}, {
    default: Readability
}]) => {

  /* Optional vault name */
  const vault = "";

  /* Optional folder name such as "Clippings/" */
  const folder = "Bookmarks/";

  function getSelectionHtml() {
    var html = "";
    if (typeof window.getSelection != "undefined") {
        var sel = window.getSelection();
        if (sel.rangeCount) {
            var container = document.createElement("div");
            for (var i = 0, len = sel.rangeCount; i < len; ++i) {
                container.appendChild(sel.getRangeAt(i).cloneContents());
            }
            html = container.innerHTML;
        }
    } else if (typeof document.selection != "undefined") {
        if (document.selection.type == "Text") {
            html = document.selection.createRange().htmlText;
        }
    }
    return html;
  }

  const selection = getSelectionHtml();

  const {
      title,
      byline,
      content
  } = new Readability(document.cloneNode(true)).parse();

  function getFileName(fileName) {
    var userAgent = window.navigator.userAgent,
        platform = window.navigator.platform,
        windowsPlatforms = ['Win32', 'Win64', 'Windows', 'WinCE'];

    if (windowsPlatforms.indexOf(platform) !== -1) {
      fileName = fileName.replace(':', '').replace(/[/\\?%*|"<>]/g, '-');
    } else {
      fileName = fileName.replace(':', '').replace(/\//g, '-').replace(/\\/g, '-');
    }
    return fileName;
  }
  const fileName = getFileName(title);

  if (selection) {
      var markdownify = selection;
  } else {
      var markdownify = content;
  }

  if (vault) {
      var vaultName = '&vault=' + encodeURIComponent(`${vault}`);
  } else {
      var vaultName = '';
  }

  const markdownBody = new Turndown({
      headingStyle: 'atx',
      hr: '---',
      bulletListMarker: '-',
      codeBlockStyle: 'fenced',
      emDelimiter: '*',
  }).turndown(markdownify);

  var date = new Date();

  function convertDate(date) {
    var yyyy = date.getFullYear().toString();
    var mm = (date.getMonth()+1).toString();
    var dd  = date.getDate().toString();
    var mmChars = mm.split('');
    var ddChars = dd.split('');
    return yyyy + '-' + (mmChars[1]?mm:"0"+mmChars[0]) + '-' + (ddChars[1]?dd:"0"+ddChars[0]);
  }

  const today = convertDate(date);

  // Utility function to get meta content by name or property
  function getMetaContent(attr, value) {
      var element = document.querySelector(`meta[${attr}='${value}']`);
      return element ? element.getAttribute("content").trim() : "";
  }

  // Fetch byline, meta author, property author, or site name
  var author = byline || getMetaContent("name", "author") || getMetaContent("property", "author") || getMetaContent("property", "og:site_name");

  /* Try to get published date */
  var timeElement = document.querySelector("time");
  var publishedDate = timeElement ? timeElement.getAttribute("datetime") : "";

  if (publishedDate && publishedDate.trim() !== "") {
      var date = new Date(publishedDate);
      var year = date.getFullYear();
      var month = date.getMonth() + 1; // Months are 0-based in JavaScript
      var day = date.getDate();

      // Pad month and day with leading zeros if necessary
      month = month < 10 ? '0' + month : month;
      day = day < 10 ? '0' + day : day;

      var published = year + '-' + month + '-' + day;
  } else {
      var published = ''
  }

  /* YAML front matter as tags render cleaner with special chars  */
  const fileContent = 
      '---\n'
      + 'author: ' + author + '\n'
      + 'title: "' + title + '"\n'
      + 'source: ' + document.URL + '\n'
      + 'clipped: ' + today + '\n'
      + 'published: ' + published + '\n' 
      + 'tags:\n'
      + '  - bookmark\n'
      + '---\n\n'
      + markdownBody ;

   document.location.href = "obsidian://new?"
    + "file=" + encodeURIComponent(folder + fileName)
    + "&content=" + encodeURIComponent(fileContent)
    + vaultName ;
})