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Miro Web Clipper to embed/link source URL into captured screenshot

  • February 12, 2023
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Hi Miro Team,

Currently, when you capture a screenshot from a webpage, using the chrome addon “Miro Web Clipper” it shows up inside Miro under “Upload > Web Clipper”, but when you drag it onto whiteboard you have no way to trace back where you took it from. The URL of the page, where the screenshot was taken from is LOST. The only hint is the name of the image which saves ONLY DOMAIN but not the url/link. Eg. www.amazon.com-2023-2-12-9-23-15.png

You must manually right-click on the image and select “Link” and copy and paste the URL from Chrome address bar into Miro, to make the screenshot clickable / hyperlinked to the source webpage. This is then symbolised by the little clickable button in top-rigt corner of the image.

This should be automatic (or a global setting to enable/disable).

The Web Clipper screesnhot object when dragged into whiteboard should already contain Link to the source webpage.

This way the screenshot acts also as a BOOKMARK to display the entire webpage with all the related information.

Any serious researcher takes tenths of screenshots when roaming an internet and doing a research. There is no way to remember where they come from and adding link manually to every image completelly breaks the flow and makes the Web Clipper just about as usefull as using any of 1000 screenshot utilities and doing CTRL+C / CTRL+V from clipboard and than manually adding a link.

Thank you

RV

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  • Beginner
  • 6 replies
  • November 12, 2023

Hi, when I try this, there is no ‘link’ to be selected ….only ‘link to’...


  • Beginner
  • 6 replies
  • November 12, 2023

Never mind… :)


  • New Here
  • 1 reply
  • December 12, 2023

I agree our team would like to use Miro to drag and drop inspiration images for our work as graphic designers, We often need to go back to the original link of the image to have a deeper look into where it came from. We often have over hundreds of images so doing it manually isn’t an option as it slows us down too much, so right now we still need to use pinterest until there is an automatic way to refer back to the url where the image came from. 


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