You can access the Obsidian Web Clipper Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "startUrls": [
10        { "url": "https://obsidian.md/help/web-clipper" },
11        { "url": "https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML" },
12    ],
13    "maxItems": 10,
14    "includeFrontmatter": True,
15    "includeImages": True,
16}
17
18# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
19run = client.actor("automation-lab/website-to-obsidian-markdown").call(run_input=run_input)
20
21# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
22print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
23for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
24    print(item)
25
26# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Obsidian Web Clipper Scraper – Website to Markdown API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Obsidian Web Clipper Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Obsidian Web Clipper Scraper API in JavaScript

Obsidian Web Clipper Scraper API through CLI

Obsidian Web Clipper Scraper OpenAPI definition

Obsidian Web Clipper Scraper API

Obsidian Scraping Tool

uasd40/obsidian-scraping-tool

Connects Obsidian vaults with web scraping via MCP. Auto-converts scraped content into formatted notes with tags and templates.

Simon Breidenbach

Obsidian Community Plugins & Themes Scraper

crawlerbros/obsidian-plugin-scraper

Scrape all Obsidian community plugins and CSS themes from the official obsidian-releases repository. Includes download stats, latest version, GitHub links, and more for 1700+ plugins.

Crawler Bros

Obsidian MCP Actor

tillzero/obsidian-mcp-actor

Bridge the web and your Obsidian vault! Scrapes articles, strips ads, downloads images locally, generates AI tags, and syncs perfectly formatted Markdown notes directly to your hard drive via the MCP protocol.

K S

Obsidian Mcp Actor

breezy_overthrow/obsidian-mcp-actor

A lightweight Obsidian MCP Actor built for fast, local note automation. It parses, indexes, and transforms vault content with zero bloat. Perfect for workflows that need speed, clean structure, and reliable processing across markdown files, tags, metadata, and linked notes.

Antony mwangi

Web Page to Markdown Extractor

fetch_cat/web-page-to-markdown-extractor

Convert public URLs into clean Markdown, text, metadata, links, images, and optional HTML for AI and automation workflows.

Hanna Nosova

AI-Ready Webpage Extractor

s3nafps/ai-ready-webpage-extractor

Convert public web pages into clean Markdown, text, links, tables, images, metadata, and JSON-LD for AI workflows.

mohamed senator

Web Content Scraper

anyxsolutions/web-content-scraper

Fetches a list of web pages and extracts clean article text, markdown, and publication metadata.

Anyx Solutions

Web Page & PDF to Markdown

prizable_aster/web-page-pdf-to-markdown

Converts public web pages and text-based PDFs into clean Markdown, plain text, and structured JSON.

Vaque Wei

Doc to Markdown — DOCX, PDF & web pages to clean markdown

amanatools/doc-to-markdown

Convert DOCX files, PDFs, and web pages into clean markdown for LLM and agent ingestion. Main-content extraction strips navigation junk from web pages. Pay per document.