This extension lets you collect specific content blocks from web pages and consolidate them into clean Markdown, ready for your clipboard. Choose between single capture mode for quick one-time selections or collection mode for gathering content from multiple pages.
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- Markdown conversion is based on common HTML structures and might not perfectly capture every edge case.
- The primary intent of the tool is to capture text based content. It ignores images, video, iframes etc.
- Click the extension icon and press "Single Capture"
- Hover your mouse over the page – selectable content blocks will get a red outline
- Click the block you want to capture. The content is immediately copied to your clipboard as Markdown
- Start Collecting: Click the extension icon and press "Start Collecting". This activates the collection mode.
- Activate Selection: Navigate to a webpage and press the hotkey (
Alt+Xby default). - Select Content: Hover your mouse over the page – selectable content blocks will get a red outline. Click the block you want to add. A confirmation toast will appear.
- Collect More: Repeat steps 2 & 3 on the same or different pages to add more content to your collection. Each snippet includes its source URL.
- Finish & Copy: When done, click the extension icon again and press "Stop Collecting & Copy". All collected content (formatted as Markdown) is copied to your clipboard.
Press Esc anytime during the selection process to cancel selecting from the current page.
- Download or clone this repository.
- Open Chrome/Edge and navigate to
chrome://extensionsoredge://extensions. - Enable "Developer mode" (usually a toggle in the top right).
- Click "Load unpacked".
- Select the
context-collectorfolder (the one containingmanifest.json). - The Context Collector icon ✨ will appear in your browser toolbar.
Found a bug or have an idea? Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request!
This project is licensed under the MIT License