# Clipper API listens only localhost, requesting to include local addresses

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/clipper-api-listens-only-localhost-requesting-to-include-local-addresses/3560>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [19 September 2019 18:40 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/clipper-api-listens-only-localhost-requesting-to-include-local-addresses/3560 "2019-09-19T18:40:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [22 September 2019 13:16 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/clipper-api-listens-only-localhost-requesting-to-include-local-addresses/3560/3 "2019-09-22T13:16:32Z")

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If you don’t explicitly set your router to port forwarding it’s not internet, just private network.

I’m guessing from this [topic / web clipper arthitecture](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/web-clipper-architecture/2331/10), it isn’t possible to making it optional or reading from a file?

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