The official Obsidian Web Clipper is *almost* exactly what I need, but is a narrow miss.
Up until now I've used Markdownload and then copied the resulting files into Obsidian, which is more clunky than the new clipper, but it has one important feature: it downloads images. I clip articles not only to help me find them again, but also to protect against web rot, but the official clipper links to web versions of the images. I don't trust those not to randomly go away.
Unfortunately Obsidian doesn't seem to have a way to convert those to local images, automatically on clipping or even very easily manually afterwards. So for that reason I'll be sticking to Markdownload until they add that as an option.
Looking at the roadmap it appears it's on the list to do, although slightly worryingly marked "requires changes to the Obsidian app" https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-clipper?tab=readme-ov-file#roadmap
Thanks for the suggestions to use Local Images Plus (https://github.com/Sergei-Korneev/obsidian-local-images-plus) which will process all new posts and pastes automatically to make local versions of all images. Solves my problem ahead of Obsidian doing it themselves
@sinbad that just means this feature will require changes to the Obsidian URI protocol, similar to the other new parameters we added recently to support Web Clipper
https://help.obsidian.md/Extending+Obsidian/Obsidian+URI
@kepano OK, the fact that it was mentioned suggested a long lead time - but I've solved this via a plugin for now anyway so all good. Thanks!