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6 Valuable Notion Formulas For The Web Clipper

Sarah Brennan ·

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🔗 Notion URL Formulas

Do you use a web clipper with Notion to bookmark URLs? These formulas can enhance your Notion web clipper database to help organize and group saves. For example, you can extract the Twitter profile from a saved tweet. Next, group all tweets by Twitter user. Copy and paste the codes below into a formula property to see how they can work for you.

 

Notion Web Clippers

  1. Native web clipper

  2. Save to Notion

properties required: URL and Formula

1. Find Website From URL

replace(replace(replace(prop("URL"), ".*https?://", ""), ".*www.", ""), "[/].*", "")

 

2. Find Twitter Profile

if(contains(prop("URL"), "twitter.com/") and not contains(prop("URL"), "search") and not contains(prop("URL"), "communities") and not contains(prop("URL"), "lists"), "＠" + replace(replace(prop("URL"), ".*https://twitter.com/", ""), "/.*", ""), "")

 

3. Find Twitter Media Type

if(contains(prop("URL"), "twitter.com/"), if(contains(prop("URL"), "status"), "✽ Post", if(contains(prop("URL"), "search"), "? Query", if(contains(prop("URL"), "list"), "↓ List", if(contains(prop("URL"), "communities"), "‼ Community", "✓ Profile ")))), "")

 

4. Find Twitter Query

if(contains(prop("URL"), "twitter") and contains(prop("URL"), "search"), replaceAll(replace(replace(prop("URL"), ".*search[?]q=", ""), "[&]src.*", ""), "%20", " "), "")

 

5. Find YouTube Media Type

if(contains(prop("URL"), "youtube.com/"), if(contains(prop("URL"), "list"), "▷ Playlist", if(contains(prop("URL"), "watch"), "✽ Video", if(contains(prop("URL"), "channel"), "☆ Channel", if(contains(prop("URL"), "?search"), "? Query", "")))), "")

 

6. Find YouTube Query

if(contains(prop("URL"), "youtube") and contains(prop("URL"), "query"), replace(replace(prop("URL"), ".*query[=]", ""), "[+]", " "), "")

 

How To Group By Formula

Configure your web clipper database to group saved web urls by the formula results above. For example, you can group all saves by website name.

Step 1: navigate to database menu, and to group by.

Step 2: choose what formula to group by.

 

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