Images on pages clipped by Anytype Web Clipper

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What do you need help with?

Why can an image, imported as object by Anytype Web Clipper after clipping a page not be found as an image by search? The clipped web content exists on a page, but where does that clipped image actually go? How can it be found for reuse?

When I clip a web page containing an image via Anytype Web Clipper as a page (including page content), that image cannot be found as image object, though it is visible on the Anytype page that contains the content of the clipped web page.

OS

Sequoia 15.1.1

Anytype Version

0.44.0

Network Mode

AnySync

Technical Information

OS-Version: darwin x64 15.1.1
App-Version: 0.44.0
Versionsnummer: build on 2024-12-16 16:53:50 +0000 UTC at #c04d64d52304c0fe8800032e74e49a7159abdbad
Bibliotheksversion: v0.38.7
Anytype-Identität: A6nu7vz891FKvFggksu3HdNpVmvcKrURYW3236JYBzSxZ5w5
Analytics-ID: db6eb2b8-aecb-4e0e-aa76-e4bcdcbdae6e
Geräte-ID: 12D3KooWRhSiPoFvZsH9pf65ESabyM7U1ex253BPYH8cUrZpN2Ch

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Before filing a bug report, I want to make sure that someone is experiencing the same issue or is able to reproduce it.

To reproduce:

  1. Install Anytype Web Clipper for Chrome.

  2. Open a web page in Chrome that contains an image.

  3. Clip that page with Anytype Web Clipper (settings: Save as page, Add page content)

  4. Open the page you have just created in Anytype. Check whether the image is present (successfully clipped).

  5. On that page, open the image “as object”. A modal window opens showing the image. Note the title of the image.

  6. Now let’s assume you want to reuse that image on another page. So create a new page and try to insert the image. To do this, you have to search for it among all existing images by its title.

  7. But if you enter the title of the image (or parts of it) in the search field, you will not find the image. It is still on the page you created during the clipping process, so it’s successfully uploaded, and you also know its title, but still you cannot reuse it because the search will not find it.

Even a set of all existing images of the space won’t list that image.

Where has it gone?

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You mean if you go to All Objects → Types → images, you won’t see it in there?
I would test it for you, except on linux, the web clipper cannot be authenticated and so many of us have not been able to use the web clipper yet. It is my understanding it was fixed recently and hopefully soon I’ll be able to use it

Cheers

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I don’t use the web clipper, but it happens also if you simply do copy & paste a selection from a website into Anytype.

The pics that are included in the selection don’t appear in the Set for all images.

  1. I believe it is intended.
  2. I further believe (but this is only blind guessing), that the pics become included into the Object in Base64 format (or a similar one).

Why do I believe that it is intended?
Because, in most cases, we have to do with more or less unwanted garbage images. Tiny pictograms etc.
In most cases there is no further need for them. It would flood the image Set with lots of unnecessary garbage if all these would find their way into it.

It’s maybe not the ultimate best way how it works. There is room for optimizations at some point, yes.
But I believe it is at least better as it is, then if every image would appear in the images Set.
If you really want to have a pic in the system, you can copy & paste it exclusively, that works.

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@Code-Jack That makes perfect sense to me, thanks for that assessment!
Anytype Web Clipper currently grabs not only the main content of a web page, but additionally so much unwanted, unrelated junk, tons of useless navigation links and other links, icons and thumbnails of all sizes and other unneeded stuff that always has to be manually deleted after clipping. So I’m actually glad that these files aren’t flooding my spaces.
I have already tried to clip the content of a web page in “read view” to isolate the main content, but unfortunately this does not work with Anytype Web Clipper, a web page in read view will not be clipped.

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Yes, exactly, and now I believe that this is intentionally (as @Code-Jack mentioned), otherwise masses of useless images, icons, thumbnails would accumulate.

Ok, so no bug report.

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for the meantime, a suggestion would be to use a ‘simple’ or ‘reading’ mode…or however it is called in your browser. That function strips out on many pages lot of the clutter…and then use the web clipper. See if that helps.

Cheers

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Thanks, but as I said, clipping in “reader view” (extension for Chrome) doesn’t work, and there is no Anytype Web Clipper for Firefox.

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Apologies; I must have missed that

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From 0.44.0 Release Notes:

Files and markups from the HTML and bookmarks are no longer created as objects when you place them in the app. This enhances the functionality of the Web Clipper and clipboard, resulting in a cleaner app without unnecessary file clutter.