WebScrapBook

Capture web pages to local device or backend server for future retrieval, organization, annotation, and editing.

What is WebScrapBook?

WebScrapBook is a browser extension that provides users with a comprehensive solution for capturing, archiving, organizing, and editing web pages. It captures web pages meticulously, not missing any details, and it lets you customize the captured contents. It supports different archive formats and can organize archives in the browser sidebar for easy access. It also offers features for page editing, full-text searching, and remote access. Mobile browsers are also supported, allowing for flexible usage.

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By: Danny Lin

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Users: 30,000+

Rating: 3.75 (83)

Version: 2.16.1 (Last updated: 2024-11-04)

Creation date: 2020-06-03

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus
downloads
storage
tabs
unlimitedStorage
webNavigation
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
http://*/*
https://*/*

Size: 531.46K

Email: da*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 5260 ▼ 19

Other rankings

#1438 in Tools

#31 in firefox keyword 23

#100 in web page keyword 58 ▼ 3

#124 in source keyword 29 ▼ 6

#203 in create keyword 37 ▲ 6

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Other platforms

WebScrapBook (v2.16.1)

3.96

(134) 7,427+

WebScrapBook (v2.16.1)

4.20

(5) 8,090+

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Extension summary

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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.
Page editing: A web page can be highlighted, annotated, or edited before or after a capture.
Organizable collections: Captured pages can be organized in the browser sidebar using one or more scrapbooks, and each scrapbooks holds a hierarchical tree structure to organize data items. Notes using HTML or markdown format can also be created and managed. (*)
Fulltext searching: Each scrapbook can be further indexed for a rich-feature search (using title, fulltext, comment, source URL, create time, modify time, etc.). (*)
Remote access: Captured data can be hosted with a central backend server and be read or edited from other devices. Alternatively, a scrapbook can generate a static site index and be distributed as a static web site. (*)
Mobile support: WebScrapBook supports mobile browsers such as Firefox for Android and Kiwi browser. You can capture and edit the web page from a mobile phone or tablet.
Legacy ScrapBook support: Scrapbooks created from legacy ScrapBook or 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. (*)
An HTZ or MAFF archive file can be viewed using the built-in archive page viewer, with PyWebScrapBook or other assistant tools, or by opening the index page after unzipping.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Great for capturing and editing web pages
Cross-browser sharing of clippings
Flexible backend server setup
Good documentation and user support

Cons

Frequent errors related to saving pages
Issues with saving content in UTF-8 when using Chinese characters
User-unfriendly interface with excessive dialog boxes when saving

Most mentioned

Fatal error when trying to download to a folder
Difficulty with capturing complete webpages
Complicated setup for backend services

User reviews

Thank you for a GREAT app!!!! A lot of year I could not find the same!

Леонид Рысев, 2024-09-21

后端服务器域名使用非443 端口，打开网页存档的时候错误，链接中不会把端口加进去，以前都不会

Howard Chau, 2024-08-21

A must-have extension. Few years ago, I kept using old Firefox (with NPAPI plugins) before this extension was ported to Chrome and became mature enough (and now maybe I'll have to block Chrome updates that would break Manifest v2 extensions). The web server backend requires some effort to setup (I imagine this could be a bit tricky for those who are not familiar with Python), but it provides a whole new level of flexibility.