I’m using a combination of Web Clipper and Bases to clip web pages to my vault and view/organize them using Bases. Part of my Web Clipper template includes a link to an image, which looks something like this when it’s added to Obsidian.
I’d like these images to be downloaded to my vault so I can view the images without an internet connection. When I run the “Download attachments for current file” command in Obsidian, no attachments are found.
Proposed solution
The “Download attachments for current file” command should also look at links in properties, check to see if they link to an image, and if they do, include it in the list of potential images to download.
The check to see if it’s an image or not could be accomplished in one of several ways, here are a few I thought of.
End of link ends in .png, .jpeg, etc.
Make network request for link and check “Content-Type” header of response.
Current workaround (optional)
I don’t have any workarounds right now. I may end up writing a plugin or Templater script to handle downloading images in properties.
It’s valid YAML. I didn’t write it by hand, it’s what the properties editor generated by default. But that’s besides the point: I can also put quotes around it, add escapes, etc. and it still won’t make any difference. The frontmatter above also works in the Cards layout in Bases as the cover image.
I think the problem here is that Obsidian is inferring the content type of the URL by parsing it. A more robust method would be to perform a HEAD request to the URL and check the returned Content-Type header. This method is also cheap, it will only return the headers not the entire body.
