metafetch

Metafetch Screenshots a Website Into Your Note

One command captures the site in a note's url as it looks today, saves the image in your vault, and embeds it under Screenshots.

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Metafetch Screenshots a Website Into Your Note

Why Care?

A note about a tool should show what the tool looks like. Our toolkit notes have a ## Screenshots section for that, and it was almost always empty, because finding, saving, and embedding a screenshot by hand is exactly the chore nobody gets to.

Now it's one command.

What's New?

  • Fetch screenshots from website. Run it on any note with a url, and Metafetch captures that page, saves the image to your attachments folder as linear-app-screenshot-2026-11-06.png, and embeds it under ## Screenshots with a caption saying where and when it was taken.

  • Free to start. It uses Microlink, the service behind Fetch via Microlink: about 50 screenshots a day with no key, and more with one.

  • It adds, never replaces. Screenshots you already have stay, including ones Perplexed found. A placeholder like "none publicly available" is replaced.

Why Save the File?

Microlink hands back a link to the image, but that link expires. A note that embeds it would show a broken image within days. So Metafetch downloads the image and keeps it in your vault, where it belongs to you, syncs with the rest of the vault, and still works offline.

Two Commands, Two Kinds of Screenshot

Perplexed 0.6.0 ships a command with the same name that works differently, and they're meant to be used together:

MetafetchPerplexed
What you getThe homepage as it looks todayThe product screenshots the company publishes
HowMicrolink renders the pagePerplexity's image search, limited to the company's site
StoredIn your vaultLinked from the company's site
CostFree for about 50 a dayYour Perplexity key

Both write to ## Screenshots with the same rule, so running one after the other keeps both sets.

Good to Know

  • Which URL: the note's url, or its only URL-valued property when it has no url. With several and no url, the command asks you to add one.

  • The screenshot is the top of the page at a desktop width, not the whole scrolling page.

  • Tested by unit tests for the response parsing, file naming, and section writing.