Reviews for WebScrapBook
WebScrapBook by Danny Lin
Review by pknag
Rated 4 out of 5
by pknag, 4 years agoI have been using ScrapbookX for many years and using waterfox for compatibility. However it is time for me ditch it and use FF. Installed the extension and configured the backend server. Took a little while to get used to it. I really like it in many ways. For one it is a lot faster. I have 15Gb plus data and previous version in waterfox will make the browser slow to a crawl. This is lot faster presumably because the backend handles the data.
But one thing really slows down productivity is not being able to select the folder to save the capture. For full capture I can drag the url from location bar to the folder. But for plain bookmarks it is a pain. My folder list is huge and nested. So dragging the last item to appropriate location becomes a huge time sink.
I noticed it has been reported before both in reviews and on git issues. And you say it is complex and I understand that. Any idea when this will be addressed?
I was thinking something simple like using Ctrl key while dragging the url to a folder could be customized to bookmark capture.
Anyway let me know what you think could be a simple solution.
But one thing really slows down productivity is not being able to select the folder to save the capture. For full capture I can drag the url from location bar to the folder. But for plain bookmarks it is a pain. My folder list is huge and nested. So dragging the last item to appropriate location becomes a huge time sink.
I noticed it has been reported before both in reviews and on git issues. And you say it is complex and I understand that. Any idea when this will be addressed?
I was thinking something simple like using Ctrl key while dragging the url to a folder could be customized to bookmark capture.
Anyway let me know what you think could be a simple solution.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoTo capture as bookmark you can drag URL with Alt pressed.
Another way to achieve this is to use "capture as..." and set the "parentId" using JSON (You may have to copy the folder item ID and the snippet manually somewhere beforehand, though).
Since WSB allows lots of customization, including batch captures, we haven't find a nice design to configure them using GUI. It's welcome if you have any nice design idea for a GUI that can replace the JSON.
Another way to achieve this is to use "capture as..." and set the "parentId" using JSON (You may have to copy the folder item ID and the snippet manually somewhere beforehand, though).
Since WSB allows lots of customization, including batch captures, we haven't find a nice design to configure them using GUI. It's welcome if you have any nice design idea for a GUI that can replace the JSON.
139 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by 远离中共邪教快退出党团队, 3 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alanyyab, 6 days agoVery useful. 2 Feature suggestions: Dark mode UI support for the sidebar. And an easier way to highlight text, possibly similar to Raindrop extension where after highlighting text a popup right above the text shows up with color options.
- Rated 5 out of 5by 退出中共邪教党团队避疫, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18834571, 2 months agoУдалось в первозданном виде сохранить страницу, которую не сохранял ни один браузер. Автору большое спасибо и успехов в работе!
- Rated 1 out of 5by ehobby, 4 months agoUnable to get this to work on Firefox 133 and Fedora 40. Installed the backend and the browser extension. Could not find any configuration for the backend that would work. There needs to be a more specific set of instructions written by someone who has successfully installed this extension in Linux, unless this only works in Windows. Perhaps this is a great extension but it is worthless if it cannot be installed.
Developer response
posted 4 months agoHave you read the documentation: https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook/wiki/Basic#3-browser-sidebar-approach ? - Rated 5 out of 5by OM_RA, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Silopolis, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18235051, a year agoI needed to backup a website that used form login, making a simple scraping not possible. This extension worked like a charm after figuring out some of the configuration options.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Avater, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14643647, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Supriyadi, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Yaliang, 2 years agoThanks for developing this plugin. It makes it extremely easy to achieve and save web pages.
- Rated 5 out of 5by texsd, 2 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13058149, 2 years agoI choose the WebScrapBook/data option but it wants me to configure Backend server... ? ? ?
Useless.
I miss the old Scrapbook Extension.Developer response
posted 2 years agoPlease consult the documentation about different approaches to capture a page: https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook/wiki/Basic. Raise an issue with more details (e.g. a screenshot illustrating where you are asked for backend server configuration) in the source repository if you still don't get it. - Rated 5 out of 5by Alexander, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12472805, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by azzone, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13474132, 3 years agoTanto utile prima ora completamente inusabile perchè oltremodo macchinoso.
- Rated 5 out of 5by mike1985, 3 years agoAmazing Tool, would be nice to set also a min. size for pictures...
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15902721, 3 years ago