WebScrapBook
A browser extension that captures web pages to local device or backend server for future retrieval, organization, annotation, and edit.
- Free • Open Source
- Note-taking Tool
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- Microsoft Edge
- Vivaldi Browser
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Firefox
What is WebScrapBook?
WebScrapBook is a browser extension that captures the web page faithfully with various archive formats and customizable configurations, for future retrieval, organization, annotation, and editing. This project inherits from legacy Firefox add-on ScrapBook X.
Features:
- Capture faithfully: A web page shown in the browser can be captured without losing any subtle detail. Metadata such as source URL and timestamp are also recorded.
- Customizable capture: WebScrapBook can save selected area in a page, save source page (before processed by scripts), or save page as a bookmark. How to capture images, audio, video, fonts, frames, styles, scripts, etc. are also customizable. A web page can be saved as a folder, a ZIP-based archive file (HTZ or MAFF), or a single HTML file.
- Organizable collections: Captured pages can be organized in the browser sidebar using one or more "scrapbooks". A scrapbook holds a hierarchical tree structure to organize data items, and can be further indexed for a rich-feature search (using a combination of title, fulltext keywords, custom comment, source URL, or other metadata). (*)
- Page editing: A web page can be highlighted, annotated, or edited before or after a capture. You can additionally create and manage notes using HTML or markdown format. (*)
- Remote access: Captured data can be hosted with a central backend server and be read or edited from other devices. Alternatively, a static site index can be generated for a scrapbook, which can therefore be hosted on a shared web server that doesn't support dynamic web hosting. (*)
- Mobile support: WebScrapBook supports mobile browsers such as Firefox for Android and Kiwi browser.
- Legacy ScrapBook support: Scrapbooks created from legacy ScrapBook (X) can be converted into WebScrapBook-compliant format for usage. (*) • All or partial functionality of a starred feature above requires a running collaborating backend server, which can be easily set up using PyWebScrapBook.
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WebScrapBook information
- Developed byDanny Lin
- LicensingOpen Source (MPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 5
- Alternatives40 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 711 Stars
- 110 Forks
- 27 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Said about WebScrapBook as an alternative
WebScrapBook is the successor of ScrapBook X written by the same author.
Can capture web pages into a maff file with many customizable settings. MAFF files can be opened directly in the browser after the helper PyWebScrapBook is installed and configured.
Supports remote access and MAF format.
Tags
- Remote Desktop
- Google Chrome Extension
- Note-taking
- Firefox Extension
- website-indexer
- scrapbook
Categories
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casualUser Upvoted a comment on WebScrapBookI used to use the old Scrapbook extension for Firefox which became defunct with Firefox 57. WebScrapBook is a perfect replacement for newer browsers.
(Web)ScrapBook is amongst the most useful browser extension out there. It allows you to save and, annotate and markup (highlight) webpages that you come across whilst browsing the internet. It is an excellent tool for research. And on top its free. This extension deserves to be more popular.
The unique selling point of (Web)ScrapBook is, that it completely resides within your browser. It's not connected to any service that siphons off your personal and private data.
I used to use the old Scrapbook extension for Firefox which became defunct with Firefox 57. WebScrapBook is a perfect replacement for newer browsers.
(Web)ScrapBook is amongst the most useful browser extension out there. It allows you to save and, annotate and markup (highlight) webpages that you come across whilst browsing the internet. It is an excellent tool for research. And on top its free. This extension deserves to be more popular.
The unique selling point of (Web)ScrapBook is, that it completely resides within your browser. It's not connected to any service that siphons off your personal and private data.