(Archived) Any tricks for whole web page clipping?

[cr5595 1]

I would like to be able to clip all the content on a web page. Unless I am missing something, I need to scroll down the page and take several snapshots to capture the entire page. Obviously, this is very ineffecient. Does anyone have any tips to help me out? I am using the mac client with the menu bar clipper. Thanks.

[engberg 89]

On the Mac, you can select all of the contents of the web page via "Select All" (Command-A), then copy it (Command-C) and then Paste to Evernote (Control-Command-V).

This will get you all of the page, as text, without needing to do screenshots.

[cr5595 1]

thank you

I will see if just having text will work for me. I wanted to use EN instead of using web archives in EagleFiler or Yojimbo; I am suspecting that the lack of a single web page capture will be a problem for me.

[crashing_sux 0]

I use the add to EverNote link on the tools menu in Internet Explorer. If you have nothing on the page selected it sends the whole page over. Unfortunately I am a firefox user so when I want to do this I have to copy the url from firefox, paste it into internet explorer, then send it to evernote, but it is a usable workaround. I'm not sure if there is an "add to EverNote" functionality in Firefox 2, if so it wouldn't work for me anyway as I'm using Firefox 3 beta 5, and when working in beta software you have to deal with a few things not working exactly as you'd like

[engberg 89]

(I guessed fromcontext that cr5595 was using a Mac ... hence the Mac-specific instructions. crashing_sux is correct that clipping a web page from the Windows client is a little more straightforward ... I use FF2 on Vista and just hit the green Evernote icon in the toolbar to clip there.)

[crashing_sux 0]

Unless I'm missing something the original request was "how do I clip a long web page without having to scroll", I didn't think that was possible from the green icon in the tool bar. When I try to use it I see the message "nothing selected". When I use the internet explorer add in it specifically says if nothing is selected it will clip the whole page, not just the visible portion.

[cr5595 1]

Sorry if I was not clear. I am using a Mac. The clipper will only capture the current view, so if I want to capture the whole page, I clip, scroll down to part 2, clip again, scroll down, clip again, etc....

[crashing_sux 0]

You mentioned that if you use "select all" that the text only may be the best you can do. Is the text all you get when you do a select all? I find that in both Internet Explorer and FireFox if I do a select all, then paste I still get the whole page. I haven't tried Safari on Windows yet. Maybe you will need to switch browsers for the capture. I know it's suboptimal but it may be a better experience than taking multiple snapshots of a page.

[engberg 89]

On the Mac, the "pasteboard" clipper (Paste to Evernote) grabs both the hypertext and the images from web pages.

[cr5595 1]

I have tried FF3b5 and Safari 3. I have only tried select all>copy>paste on a couple websites. On those sites, I get text only in FF and Text & Images in Safari. The problem in Safari is that the formatting disappears and it looks like a text page with some .gifs which makes reviewing my research a pain.

[cr5595 1]

I have been copying and pasting for a few days now and it is kind of hack; the paste is by no means a good copy of the web page it was clipped from.

Is there a plan to capture a whole web page (not just the screen view) with a single click?

[engberg 89]

We plan to improve clipping & rendering over time, but it's a bit tricky in general to reproduce the exact layout you see on many modern web pages in a secure way. Thanks for the feedback ...

[robodean 0]

Both DevonThink and Yojimbo have marklets that perfectly archive whole pages with single clicks.

Perfectly.

They may be a good place to start.

Not being able to single click clip an entire webpage with confidence is a show-stopper for me.

[ljun 0]

agreed, [easy] full page web clippings is a huge gaping hole

I assume importing webarchives will work, but that's not something my mom can do ... [i don't think]

[ljun 0]

looks like webarchives aren't imported properly [formatting is off].

maybe there could be a way for EN to auto-convert webarchives into PDFs and import it like that instead .... or have webkit natively built into EN so it can render webarchives?