Is there a way to force Bear to clip all the images on a web page? Often only the first image in a news article is transferred into Bear. When the article then subsequently references charts or graphics-these aren’t in Bear making it useless for reference.
If the Bear team doesn’t respond, here is a better web clipper, although not as convenient. It’s called MarkDownload. It’s available for chromium, firefox, and webkit browsers. Chromium Link
Thanks for this. I’m on iOS/iPadOS only at the moment (c’mon web version) but it’s good to know that there are alternatives.
If you select all the content you want to transfer to Bear in the browser and then hit the extension button all the images visible will be transferred to Bear.
We’ll probably start working on a new clipper and iOS/macOS extension after shipping the new encryption. The goal for the new clipper is to avoid online page conversion and work with the rendered HTML content as opposed to the HTML served by the HTTP server. This, along with a faster conversion, should allow us to avoid situations where we can’t convert images because they are loaded in-browser via JS libraries.
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Does it help to show you where typical problems of bad clippings lie using the example of some clippings? Or would the new clipping tool be a completely different approach, so that pointing out some of the weaknesses of the current clipper is of no interest?
I’m trying to fix the recently reported problems with the clipper so if you have other links not working feel free to report them.
As mentioned above the clipper will work on different data compared to the current and will require a lot of testing, but now it’s too early.
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Wow, this is encouraging to hear that a new web clipper is even on the radar (I understand it is not imminent and likely a long wait). Thanks for sharing!
As for me, I don’t expect the following pages to be fixed, as these pages are just examples. I am very excited about the plans for a new clipper and would be thrilled if Bear could then replace Good Links for me, as it would have many advantages for me.
In this context, I would like to remind of an old request that was popular about 2 years ago, because it would have an added value in connection with the Clipper: read only notes. I imagine that clippings are always read-only by default until you switch off the mode.
Here for comparison is a link that gives very good results in bear:
Here however some links that shows some typical flaws:
(That happens very often to see at the beginning the same picture two times)
(While absolutely fine in safari reader apart from lost image which in turn happens often in apples reader, the following clipping is just catastrophic in bear: too much garbage before and after the actual text)