---
{
  "title": "Web Clipper",
  "intro": "Save pages and selections from your browser into Workflowy."
}
---

Workflowy Web Clipper lets you save pages, links, and highlighted text to Workflowy with a single click or a keyboard shortcut. You can send clips directly to a destination, place them at your current Workflowy cursor, or copy them for manual pasting.

# Install the official extension

- [Install Clip to Workflowy for Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clip-to-workflowy/jgapgnoonjgchibeajphaejhabcnklbn)
- [Install Clip to Workflowy for Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/workflowy-clipper-official/)

# Configure the Web Clipper

To open the Web Clipper settings, right-click its icon in your browser toolbar and select **Options**. The settings include explanations and examples for each feature.

# Connect your Workflowy account

Some of the Web Clipper options require a Workflowy API key. To get one:

{% steps %}
1. Right-click on the Web Clipper button in your browser toolbar, and choose **'Options'**
2. Select 'Get a token' to view the [Workflowy API Key](https://workflowy.com/api-key/) page.
3. Generate an API key if you do not already have one.
4. Copy the key and save it in the extension.
{% /steps %}

Treat your API key like a password. It allows the extension to read and create content in your Workflowy account. To disconnect the extension, delete or regenerate the key on the [API key page](https://workflowy.com/api-key/).

# Using the Web Clipper

## Choose where clips go

The extension provides three clipping modes:

- **Destination** — Send clips directly to Inbox, Home, or a node with a [Jump To shortcut](/help/jump-to). Choose a default destination for one-click clipping, or use the right-click menu to pick another. Requires an API key.
- **Cursor** — Insert the clip at your cursor in an open Workflowy browser tab. Requires an API key.
- **Clipboard** — Copy the clip as OPML, then paste it into Workflowy yourself. No API key required.

## Clip a page or selection

Open the extension while viewing a page to save its title and URL. Select text first to include it in the clip.

You can also right-click a page or selection. The **Clip to Workflowy** menu provides access to recent and saved destinations, Cursor mode, and Clipboard mode without opening the extension.

## Choose a clip format

The extension can structure the page title, link, and selected text in three ways:

- **Named** — Make the page title the linked item and place selected text in its note.
- **Bullets** — Put the title, URL, and selected paragraphs into nested items.
- **Mixed** — Keep the title as the item, the URL in its note, and selected paragraphs as children.

## Keyboard shortcuts

The extension provides commands for clipping to your default destination, clipping at the cursor, copying to the clipboard, and repeating the last action. Open your browser's extension keyboard-shortcut settings to view or change the assigned keys.

# Troubleshooting

- **Invalid API token:** Delete or regenerate your key at [workflowy.com/api-key](https://workflowy.com/api-key/), then connect the extension again.
- **A destination is missing:** Create or update the destination as a Workflowy Shortcut, then refresh the extension.
- **Cursor clipping is unavailable:** Open Workflowy in a browser tab and place the cursor in the destination item.
- **The clip was copied but not inserted:** Clipboard mode requires you to paste into Workflowy manually.