[Web Clipper] Add meta variable-based template matching

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Use case or problem

The Web Clipper now supports both URL and schema.org matching in a template.
Schema.org recipes are not available on every site, but meta variables seem to be more common.

In my case, I want to create several templates for GitHub,
one for repo home page, one for issues, and another for files in the source tree.

On GitHub, the meta:name:route-controller variable can be used to distinguish these pages.

Since we already have schema.org matching, could we add support for the meta variable-based matching?

Furthermore, is it possible to trigger a temalpte with a conjuction(/) of a list of filters?
Say, if the URL matches github.com and the route-controller is some specific value.

Proposed solution

Support template matching based on mata-variables.
Support triggering a template if multiple rules fire together.

Current workaround (optional)

Code the URL patterns in Regular Expression and use RegEx-based matching
But this is not always feasible and it’s really painful to write and inspect RegExes.

Sincerely
L.P.

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I think bug reports and feature requests for the Obsidian clipper go on the GitHub page:

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Both of those already exist, don’t they?

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Oh, I didn’t even realize that the clipper is open-source and hosted on GitHub.
I am going to post an issue on the GitHub page.

Thank you very much.

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Great, thanks. I’ve been busy and haven’t been following along with the clipper developments the past few weeks.

I’ll move this to Help for now.

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Not really.

I skippped through the source code and verified that both have not been implemented yet.

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Not this?

And https://github.com/ can be added as a template trigger.

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Sorry, I have already checked both the documentation and the source code.

I’m sure that the meta variables can be used to populate a template’s content,
but not yet to trigger a template, which is I’m looking for.

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My error. Thanks for clarifying. :+1: