Web viewer - Auto-add original URL of the saved webpage

[Weiel]

Use case or problem

When saving a webpage with the fresh and amazing Web viewer I have to add the source URL to it manually.

I want to keep such sources for future reference and this will be a recurring chore.

Proposed solution

Auto-prepend the saved web pages with their links. Add an option(s) to control the behavior to settings.

Alternatively (even better for me), add such a link as a “Source URL” property.

On the minimum, auto-prepending would be good. The premium option would be to have both ways to pick from (or disable) and in the case of the second one an ability to control the name of the property in settings (“Source URL” by default).

Current workaround (optional)

Chore: manually copy-pasting the link, possibly adding a property (as a template).

[scooby359]

This would be really useful.

I’m just playing around with the web viewer, but when I go back to the note, there’s no way to tell what webpage it was captured from.

An optional date property might also be useful as a record of when the capture was made, in case the source page later changes.

[MikeThicke]

Yes, this is really essential. I love being able to follow a link and then download a web page all within Obsidian, but so many times I forget to copy the source URL and then have to repeat the process just to copy-paste it.

[ariehen]

Using the “Default” template, I just clipped this page the the source URL is there:

Maybe check what template you are using?

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@Weiel Would you consider this feature implemented using the default template as of now (2025-04-16)?

The Default template: