Web Clipper 2.0

Beta Development feedback request
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I have to say that in many cases bears web clipper is not able to retrieve the author or date of the article while other tools like good links or unread have no problems

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Absolutely love the speed and accuracy of the clipper using the Chrome version on Edge. In Safari also but the need to “reset” each time I launch the browser is sort of a pain, but understood. How long do we think this will be in Beta?

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The author and the date are generally discarded by Mozilla’s readability because not considered the ‘meaningful‘ part of the article. I liked the metadata proposal because it overcame this limitation by providing a standard place for that kind of information.

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I am not sure if I understood you correctly. My point wasn’t where the information is shown. I am fine with the metadata approach in yaml frontmatter. But it seems that the information about the author and the publication date is not always available, unlike in other apps. Do you want to say that the readability engine you are using in the clipper is not able to catch the information?

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Yes, that’s what I meant.

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May I request the ability to retrieve the published date? That is an essential information, without wich the web clipper becomes useless for me

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It’s been working well for me, but please tell me you guys are going to fix that icon.

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I loaded this test clipper to fix an issue I’m having with nytimes.com articles (I’m a subscriber). This clipper seems to fix the problem in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. Thanks!

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Found a site that does not provide fully loaded images unless I’ve scrolled to the bottom of the page first: https://www.lonerofficial.com/post/jared-pike-a-descent-into-the-dream-pools

It used to work with v1.

Otherwise, that new clipper rocks. Reddit can finally be clipped (with a very wonky layout, but that’s Reddit)

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A small suggestion: Could the URLs clipped with Web Clipper 2.0 in Bear Note be set to show link previews by default?

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Technically, yes, if they decide to add it as a setting because all that’s added to the end of a URL is the following syntax. Everything Bear does has a syntax which can be bulk edited.

<!-- {"preview":"true"} -->

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image786×266 10.2 KB

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image 2780×1268 45.2 KB

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Quick update to announce Bear’s Web Clipper 2.0 is now available on version 2.6.3 on both the App Stores and TestFlight. For the first time, the clipper is also available on iOS and iPadOS Safari.

Here you can find a new FAQ about it.

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I don’t think having all the links present in the page displayed with the preview is something the vast majority will desire, but I can see this might be interesting if the clipper’s Title and URL only option is selected.

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Hello,

Thanks for all your hard work and continuously updating this app, with attention to many little details.

I have been using web clipper 1.0 through the share sheet. Web clipper 2.0 does clip websites that were not properly clipped before, which is great. A couple questions:

  • Using the share sheet with web clipper 1.0 gave me options for how I want to manage each web clipping (title. title and link only, etc). Is this on an individual basis choice gone with the web clipper 2.0 extension?
  • The share sheet method did not take me from Safari on IOS to bear, but when I use the web clipper 2.0 extension I am asked “do you want to open bear”, and then I am taken to bear. Is there a way to disable this?
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Also, some questions regarding permissions (on IOS safari)

  • bear is requesting additional permissions – I assume this is because I have it set to “ask” to access
      1. it does this even on websites when I am not using the web clipper though. Is there a way so that it doesn’t request permissions except when I am using the web clipper? Or to give it permission for just individual websites/browser window/tab?
      2. Also, the url of the websites it wants permissions to access are not necessarily the website I am on – Is this because the content on the page is accessing a different URL?
  • The web clipper can access webpage information, including sensitive information, such as passwords, as well as browsing history (for the page?)
      1. The reason I want permissions set to “ask” is because I don’t want something to have access to webpages where sensitive content may be typed or displayed…
      2. Why does the web clipper need access to the browsing history? (or is the currently displayed website considered “history”)

Sorry for all the questions.