Turn a web page into an article worth reading
Extract the text, tune the type and spacing, highlight what matters. Ask AI about a passage or the whole piece.
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Keep what you read
Articles, videos and podcasts. Read, ask and note as you go, and the notes land in Obsidian.
One tool, four moves
Videos and podcasts, with a transcript beside them
Player and transcript on one screen. Search captions, click a timestamp to return to the line, translate into bilingual text.
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Write down what you understood
Attach the excerpt, the source and the video time, and append it to today's Obsidian daily note. Closing the card keeps your draft.
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Pick a template and a folder, then save
Templates match by URL and write into the vault and folder you choose. Sharing to Qiaomu RSS is off by default.
qqqclip with the default template
And more
Generate and translate captions
With no official captions, use a local engine or a cloud service you choose. Translate with your own model.
An AI sidebar beside the page
Web search with sources, photo search and background image generation, with your page selection as context.
Long-form writing
A WYSIWYG editor whose AI assistant sees the whole article and your selection. Create an article draft in X.
Learning notes
Excerpt, source and time, appended to today's note. Never submitted to RSS.
Save audio and video files
Download whole files from supported study pages, with progress and a cancel button.
Nine interface languages
Simplified and Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German and Brazilian Portuguese.
Notes stay in your own vault
Saved to the Obsidian vault and folder you choose. Take them anywhere.
AI runs on your own account
No bundled model and no middleman for your key. The provider you pick bills you.
Open source under MIT
The code is on GitHub, based on Obsidian Web Clipper. Issues welcome.
Questions, translation and cloud recognition send the content they need to the provider you pick. RSS sharing is off by default; chats, drafts and recognition caches stay on your machine. Privacy policy
Install it today
- Add to Chrome
Store edition
Updates itself and asks for permissions only when needed. Pick this unless you have a reason not to.
- Download the standalone edition
Standalone edition
Newer features sooner, and the only edition that can download YouTube files. Updates by hand.
- Download the macOS installer
Local helper
Optional. Needed for silent vault writes, daily-note appends and caption generation. The macOS installer bundles Python.
Let an agent install it
Paste this into Codex, Claude Code or another agent with terminal access. It will guide you through the steps that need you.
Install or upgrade Qiaomu Clipper: https://github.com/joeseesun/qiaomu-clipper . Read README.md, docs/INSTALL-FOR-AGENTS.md and native/README.md first, tell me whether the store edition or the standalone edition fits me and what differs, then follow the instructions for my OS and browser. Download the latest stable release's -chrome-local.zip, extract it and guide me to load the extension. Install the matching helper too: on macOS download qiaomu-clipper-helper.pkg and guide me through installation; on other systems follow the repository docs. Back up and preserve existing data before upgrading. Verify the extension/helper connection and help me select my Obsidian vault.
Questions
Store edition or standalone edition?
Install the store edition unless you have a reason not to: it updates itself and asks for permissions only when needed. Choose the GitHub chrome-local.zip if you want a build newer than the store has, or want to download YouTube video and audio files (manual updates, and YouTube downloads also need the local helper). Both editions use the same extension ID.
Do I need Obsidian?
Not to read, edit, copy text, download Markdown or study captions. To save notes into a vault, install Obsidian and create or open a vault first. Without the helper, saving goes through an Obsidian URI; with the helper it writes silently.
Does AI cost anything?
Qiaomu Clipper does not provide models. Questions, translation and cloud recognition use your own provider account or API key, and that provider bills you. Reading, copying text and existing captions need no AI setup.
Is my content uploaded?
AI questions, caption translation and template interpretation send the content they need to the provider you select. Cloud speech recognition uploads audio; local recognition does not. Chat history, drafts and recognition caches stay on your machine, and some settings, templates or credentials may sync through your browser. Sharing to Qiaomu RSS is off by default. The privacy policy has the full picture. Privacy policy
Why is there no YouTube download?
The store edition does not download YouTube video or audio files and blocks files from YouTube media domains. Captions, copying or exporting the transcript and study mode all work. To download files, use the standalone edition with the local helper.