Web Clipper

[doobes]

Greetings all,

I love the Web Clipper, but have stumbled across a problem.

There is a website I want to grab a bunch of pages from, but they are arranged such that each does not have a unique URL. Some sort of gallery I think.

Use of the clipper will only create one capture of the page.

Is there a way around this?

Thanks

[dosubot[bot]]

The Web Clipper captures the current visible state of the page when you trigger it, not different gallery items or states if the URL doesn't change. This means that for galleries or dynamic sites where the content changes without a new URL, you need to manually switch to each desired view (for example, click through each gallery image) and trigger the clipper for each one. There's no built-in way to batch capture all gallery states in one go or to automatically detect DOM changes for multiple captures reference.

If you need to save many gallery items, your best option is to manually step through them and clip each state individually. For more advanced needs, you might consider using screenshot tools or third-party extensions that can automate capturing multiple DOM states.

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[doobes]

Acknowledged.

But, being the same page URL the clipper just overwrites the previous version.

[dosubot[bot]]

This happens because the Web Clipper saves multiple clippings from the same page (and on the same day) into the same note, which causes overwriting or merging of content from that URL reference. There isn't a built-in way to force each clip to create a separate note for the same URL—so for dynamic pages like galleries, each new clip will overwrite the previous one unless you manually change the parent note or clip on different days.

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[eliandoran]

I suppose one way to bypass it is to manually create a unique URL by going to the address bar in your browser and appending #1, #2, etc and then pressing Enter. These are normally for anchors. If it doesn't work, try appending a query string instead (?1, ?2).

[doobes]

Thanks, Elian.

Gave that a try, but it behaved much the same.

Appreciate the input.