Web Clipper

Grab a whole page onto the shelf

Chrome extension · free with Nearhand

Capture a full page — the whole scroll, not just the part you can see — and it lands on your shelf ready to annotate, with the page URL and console kept alongside it.

Needs the version of Nearhand from this site. The Mac App Store build does not listen for clips — it ships without the local receiver the extension posts to. Everything else on the shelf works the same in both.

Install it

Download the extension

nearhand-web-clipper.zip · 31 KB · Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc

It is not on the Chrome Web Store yet, so it installs in developer mode:

  • Unzip the download. Keep the folder somewhere permanent — Chrome loads it from where it sits, so deleting it uninstalls the extension.
  • Open chrome://extensions.
  • Turn on Developer mode, top right.
  • Click Load unpacked and choose the unzipped folder.

Make sure Nearhand itself is running, then click the extension on any page.

How it reaches the app

The extension posts to 127.0.0.1 — a loopback address that cannot leave your computer. There is no server of ours in the path, and nothing about the page is sent anywhere. Nearhand listens on port 8787 by default; if that clashes with something, change it in Settings → Web Clipper and set the same port in the extension.

What it captures

  • Full-page screenshots at 2×, stitched a viewport at a time so fixed headers do not repeat down the image.
  • Tab recording to video, with the tab’s audio.
  • Page info — the URL, the browser, and anything the page logged to the console — written beside the capture as a separate file. Open it from the shelf’s right-click menu; it never opens on its own.

If it does not work

  • Nothing arrives on the shelf. Nearhand has to be running, and the ports have to match on both sides.
  • You changed something and it still behaves the old way. Chrome keeps running the previous code until you press reload (↻) on the extension at chrome://extensions.
  • A “debugging this browser” banner appears. Expected, and it goes away on its own. Full-page capture attaches Chrome’s own debugger briefly to scroll and photograph the page at a consistent resolution.