diff --git a/src/routes/api/clipper.js b/src/routes/api/clipper.js
index db6a2068f..27c876b1e 100644
--- a/src/routes/api/clipper.js
+++ b/src/routes/api/clipper.js
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ function processContent(images, note, content) {
         }
     }
 
+    // fallback if parsing/downloading images fails for some reason on the extension side (
+    rewrittenContent = noteService.downloadImages(note.noteId, rewrittenContent);
+
     return rewrittenContent;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/services/notes.js b/src/services/notes.js
index df227291d..5609e0582 100644
--- a/src/services/notes.js
+++ b/src/services/notes.js
@@ -949,5 +949,6 @@ module.exports = {
     triggerNoteTitleChanged,
     eraseDeletedNotesNow,
     eraseNotesWithDeleteId,
-    saveNoteRevision
+    saveNoteRevision,
+    downloadImages
 };