Are you able to capture sites built like this on the new web clipper? Looks like it doesn’t work on the old or new clipper. I can get it to work on GoodLinks.
Old Clipper
New Clipper
I can’t replicate the result with Safari or Chrome. The attached is what I get.
Five Features Coming to AirPods Pro 3.bear.zip (71.0 KB)
What Browser have you used?
Here an example for some of the most annoying “mistakes” web clipper can make: to take over an advertisement image as content of the clipped even if the the image is introduced as an ad (“Anzeige” in German) . Does such flaws have to be corrected for each site or is it possible to strengthen the general extraction capabilities?
The clippings from that website are weird: the order of some parts of the content (image, text, caption of image) are indeed swapped. This clipping shows that it is highly important to distinguish captions of images from rest of the text (why not just italic?)
Can you give some hints how you would like the reports about “flaws” look like?
Safari Version 18.5 (20621.2.5.11.8)
I imported your zip file. You have metadata at the top. I only get a heading. I tried again and got the same result as before. I’m using Bear Clipper 2.0. Is there another version?
This thing is working great for me. The things I’ve tested work really well. I’m using firefox…
I don’t see the ads because I use an ad blocker. This clipper works awesome with that… No ads in the clipped content. What if someone wants the ads included in their web clip? Anything the bear team does to avoid ads can be overcome, so if you don’t want the ads perhaps use an ad blocker.
I also use an ad-blocker but it doesn‘t seem to remove that ad. Maybe because this ad is part of the text? The newspaper is advertising itself, means: it is always shown. However, it is titled as „Anzeige“ (gernan for ad) and the title could be regarded as sign to remove it
I tried your link and did not get any ads. I use ublock origin on firefox.
Actually it is the job of a webclipper to strip away all that „garbage“ from a site to which belongs advertisement. But if adblockers indeed influence the results I would consider switching to another blocker.
@trix180
How does bears new web clipper work? Does the results of an adblocker change the results of a clipping?
Yes, it does.
The webclippers try to remove everything unnecessary, such as the ads, but adblockers are indeed more efficient for this purpose for multiple reasons.
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I didn‘t know that. Sonthst means bear web clippings are applied on the already cleaned site if I understand you correctly?
@crumbletop
Thank you for the hint!
Yes, the new clipper takes into consideration what you are seeing in the browser
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So far it’s working a bit better, but I haven’t had a ton of time to test it over the last week or so.
I do wonder why we can’t use the activity view for this. Everything else I do is available from there, but with Bear I have to go through a special icon on my toolbar. What’s the practical difference between a Safari extension and what you can do from the activity view?
Apple Notes, Agenda, even Microsoft One Note, etc all go through the activity view. And then there’s Bear.
I think you mean the sharing extension here. Safaris and the browser extension in general can access the page content and run JavaScript. This allows us to perform context extraction inside the browser. The sharing extension doesn’t allow us to do this because we only have access to the URL and a few other information on the page.
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One thing I noticed with this new extension is, according to Little Snitch, the Bear app talks to the specific website being captured. From the description of the new plugin it would seem the browser would interact with the website and Bear only captures the content as made available by the browser. So the question is why Bear.app is also talking to the website. This happens with all captured content.
Gotcha.
Yeah I thought it was called a Share Sheet but when i looked it up the other day Apple are referring to it as an activity view now it seem?
The extension “moves” only the HTML content to Bear’s app, and more HTTPs requests are necessary to download the images contained in the article.
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Working more efficiently than v1 for sure - pages are properly saved now
It would have been a good opportunity to allow users to add a hashtag as they’re saving content, much like the Obsidian, Joplin, extensions etc.
I’m using it on brave browser btw
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