I purchased the Safari extension from Mac App Store. It really fills the gap in my current workflow. Thanks for this great work!
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I thought the expansion wasn’t available for purchased at Mac App Store yet.
Am I missing something? I can’t wait to have this extension.
Looks like it’s here!
Is there a way to set a keyboard shortcut for the right click menu options?
Mainly the Download Tab as Markdown option?
I just like the idea of being able to do this with a single shortcut, rather than having to either right click and select the option or activate the toolbar and select download.
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Sweet!
I realise this is a year later.
If you are on MacOS you could use Automator to move it.
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I made a linked folder (alias) of Obsidian subfolder and moved it to Download folder, plugin on Firefox supports choosing location inside Downloads folder, I chose the alias folder 
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That’s such a nicer solution. 
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Downloading images now fails for me. Does anyone have the same problem?
I’ve made a python script that tags the downloads according to their content, and then moves some of them to a particular Obsidian vault because I have to write something on them every Tuesday morning
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That sounds awesome! Do share the script when you feel like it.
It will need a bit of cleaning up because my tagging system is rather idiosyncratic, and reflects the subjects I write about, but, yes. I’ll post a version. The central trick, where it tags from keywords, I stole from a clipper for the pinboard.in bookmark manager.
import re,os.path
from datetime import datetime as dt
from datetime import timedelta
from pathlib import Path, PurePath
# TODO possibly replace print statements with logging to a file now that stuff more or less works
# TODO possibly confine operations to metadata
# TODO test the urlcleaner
# TODO (possibly really hard) write and test the byline cleaner
# These need to be adjusted for the mac, which is why they are in this form
Markdowndir="${YOURMARKDOWNDIR}"
ObsidianDir="${YOURCLIPSTOWRITEABOUTVAULT}"
md=Path(Markdowndir)
# obsidiandir is date-dependent, which is why it is not declared at the top of the file — see next function
d=dt.now()
def nextTuesday(d):
'''returns a string, not a date object'''
while d.weekday()!=1:
d += timedelta(1)
return d.isoformat()[:10]
def addMyTags(filename,isPC):
'''returns a list of tagging strings for use in metadata'''
bigstring=filename
foundtaglist=['isTagged']
if isPC:
foundtaglist.append('Press_Column')
triggerwords={
"javascript|js|python|android|github": ['nerd'],
'Pope|Cardinal|Francis|Vatican': ['Press_Column', 'Catholic', 'Schism'],
'Bishop|Archbishop|Church|Vicar|Priest|Christian|Cathedral': ['Press_Column', 'Christianity'],
"Trump": ['Politics', 'USA', 'neofash'],
'Islam"Fatwa|Muslim|mosque': ['Press_Column','Islam', 'religion', 'Race/Immigrants'],
'Online|youtube|twitter|facebook|troll|Google': ['culture_of_online_life','Adtech','security','privacy','journalism'],
'dn.se|expressen|svd.se|ö|ä|å|Sverige|Svenska': ['Sweden', 'Swedish'],
'Akademien|Engdahl|Frostenson|Arnault': ['Akademien','Nobel'],
"github": ['techie'],
'machine learning|GPT-3': ['AI'],
'asylsökande|ensamkommande|migrants': ['Race/Immigrants'],
"transphobic|transphobia|gender": ["terf"]
}
for k,v in triggerwords.items():
if re.search(k,bigstring,re.I):
foundtaglist.extend(v)
return sorted(set(foundtaglist)) # set eliminates duplicates; sorted returns a fresh list
# this is not yet written
def cleanauthorfield():
pass
# this is not yet called
def cleansourceURL(metadata):
messyUrl=re.search("https?\w+",metadata)
return messyUrl.group.split('?',1)
def GetCurrentPressColumndir():
''' returns a Path object representing next Tuesday's subdirectory'''
targetdir=os.path.join(ObsidianDir,nextTuesday(d))
td=Path(targetdir)
# print(td)
if not td.exists():
td.mkdir()
return td
def MoveFileToObsidian(filetomove):
td=GetCurrentPressColumndir()
movedName=td.joinpath(filetomove)
files.rename(movedName)
print("File moved to {}".format(movedName))
def cleanTags(tagstring):
''' takes a string of variously separated tags and returns a comma-separated list of strings'''
taglist=tagstring[1:-1].split(',') # to get rid of the brackets
tagstring=" ".join(taglist) # to get rid of commas
taglist=tagstring.split()
print("Taglist is now {}".format(taglist))
return taglist
def MoveToPressColumn():
pass
mydir=md.iterdir()
for files in mydir:
if files.is_file():
f=open(files,mode='r',encoding='utf8')
bigstring=f.read()
filename=f.name
f.close()
l=bigstring.splitlines()
if "isTagged" in bigstring:
print("{} has been tagged already; ignoring".format(files.name))
continue
try:
metadata=bigstring.split('---')[1] # this is a placeholder for the clean* stubs above to operate on
except IndexError: # there may be no metadata block
continue
isPressClip=False
print("\n\n\nProcessing {}".format(files.name))
for t in l:
if re.match("tags: ",t):
print("Tagging {} ".format(files.name))
tagstring=(t[6:])
taglist= cleanTags(tagstring)
# so taglist is now a comma-separated list of strings, whether or not originally space separated.
# parsing whole file stuff goes here
if "Press_Column" in taglist:
isPressClip=True
mytags=addMyTags(bigstring,True)
else:
mytags=addMyTags(bigstring,False)
if mytags:
if "Press_Column" in mytags:
isPressClip=True #(did the autotagger find a press column subject?)
# print("addMyTags returned: {}".format(mytags))
properlyTaggedString=bigstring.replace(tagstring,', '.join(mytags))# this would be where to add hashmarks for tags
f=open(files,mode='w',encoding='utf8')
f.write(properlyTaggedString)
f.close()
if isPressClip:
MoveFileToObsidian(files.name)
else:
print("Nothing changed in this file by me: original tags were ...")
print(','.join(taglist)) # see notes below
break
if not taglist and not mytags:
print("No tags at all found in {}".format(files.name))
# Clean up the author field in the metadata(factored out into a routine)
# Clean up the source URLs, by deleting everything after the question mark
# clean up the bylines, keeping only the first line — needs to be in a routine of its own
Extremely clunky coding style no doubt. I write so I can still understand it two years (or two weeks) after I have first got it working.
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That’s really something I will explore more. Love the topics as well. 
Thanks for sharing!
Love that solution – so elegant! Thanks for bringing this idea here. Great discussion, so many insightful post. 
For some reason a MacOS alias didn’t work for me and Firefox reported a failed download.
That said, a symlinked folder worked just fine. Thanks for the idea.
Every time I download with this plugin it fails to download images. Any idea what this is happening for me?
I usually had failed download when I changed name of linked folder in Obsidian, the alias became broken and it fails
My settings (images aren’t download, I had links to images in notes)
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I have used this extension a long time ago with no problem. Now It shows downloading the files but all the image downloads fail. I guess it should be a kind of bug.
what do you think folks?