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Web Clipper

Feather Web Clipper lets you capture web content and send it straight into Feather as clean Markdown. It works with Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi, and Firefox.

Everything stays local. The extension communicates with Feather over localhost on your machine. No data is sent to any server, no account required.

Install the Extension

Setup

  1. Open Settings > Local integrations in Feather
  2. Toggle Browser extension on
  3. Install the extension from your browser's store
  4. Click the extension icon to confirm it connects

What You Can Do

Send Page

Extracts the article content from the current page, strips ads and navigation, and opens it as a new Markdown tab in Feather. Uses smart per-site handling for GitHub (fetches raw Markdown), Stack Overflow (preserves Q&A structure), and Readability for everything else.

Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+F

Save Link

Adds the page title, URL, and timestamp to a running Saved Links file in Feather. A fast way to bookmark things right alongside your notes. The file is created automatically on first use.

Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+L

Clip Selection

Highlight any text on a page and send it to a floating Feather scratchpad. Great for grabbing quotes, code snippets, or reference material while you browse.

Shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+Y

YAML Frontmatter

When enabled in the extension's options, clipped pages automatically get YAML frontmatter with metadata pulled from the page's OpenGraph tags, Twitter Card tags, and standard HTML meta tags:

---
title: How to Build a Markdown Editor
url: https://example.com/post/markdown-editor
author: Jane Smith
published: 2026-04-10T09:00:00Z
captured: 2026-04-17 14:32
description: A step-by-step guide to building a Markdown editor from scratch.
---

Fields with no value on the page are omitted automatically.

Template Rules

You can customize which frontmatter fields are included for specific websites. In the extension's options page, add rules with a domain and a comma-separated field list:

Domain Fields
dev.to title, url, author, published, captured, keywords
github.com title, url, captured
arxiv.org title, url, author, published, description

Available fields: title, url, author, published, captured, description, image, site_name, type, keywords, language, canonical.

When no rule matches, the default set (title, url, author, published, captured, description) is used.

Privacy and Security

  • Localhost only: The extension talks to Feather over 127.0.0.1. Nothing is sent to the internet.
  • Origin-checked: Feather only accepts requests from browser extension origins. Web pages cannot connect.
  • Sanitized content: All clipped HTML is sanitized through DOMPurify before conversion to Markdown.
  • No data collection: No browsing tracking, no history storage, no analytics.
  • No accounts: No sign-in or API keys required.

Learn More

Visit the Feather Web Clipper page for a quick overview, browser-specific install links, and setup walkthrough.