WebScrapBook

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.

the developer photo!

this functional can use with standart Chrome function, without this extensions

i can't capture page. it keeps tell me this Fatal error: Failed to download "WebScrapBook/data/20240119134740999/index.html": Unable to download to the folder what can i do

Danny LinDeveloperJul 21, 2024

Please try under a clean profile (new account with only WebScrapBook extension installed), if it still happens, provide more details about your issue: 1. The browser and version you use 2. The web page URL and capture options (you can get a text copy from `Capture As` > `Advanced`) Better report to the source repository as the comment area is not easy to track updates.

I was hoping to save a complete webpage for offline use. I enabled the extension and just tried the default "Capture Page" feature. I got a new dialog box to save every single resource on the page, like every image and css file. What an absurd. The page I wanted to save contained a very simple gallery of thumbnails linked to larger images. The extension saved only the thumbnails, and they were still linking to the large image online. I find this extensions completely useless, and very user un... Show more

Danny LinDeveloperJun 4, 2023

Saving linked images (capture linked files) is a rather advanced feature and most web page capture tools simply can't support that. WebScrapBook supports it but some configuration is needed, see doc for more details: https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook/wiki/Basic#capture-linked-files. If you still have a problem to get it work, raise an issue to the source repository with the web page URL and capture options (which can be obtained through `Capture as` > `Advanced`) for further investigation and assistant.

I have very limited programming experience so there might be some dunning kreuger at play here, but this much, much, much, MUCH better than httrack or cyotek webcopy. The documentation is great and all, but I feel like most of it could be made redundant with a simple video tutorial.

Good!

Agree with Clarence Domesticus Wonderful extension, as a ScrapbookX user for years, I think this extension is able to do almost the same as scrapbookX, and additional features of PyWebScrapBook backend make it more useful. I can stop using the now very very slow old version of firefox eventually. Thanks a lot.

don't work

Danny LinDeveloperApr 18, 2021

What steps have you done and what doesn't work? Please provide more details for troubleshooting.

I am sorry to have to give this promising extension 1 star, however I have spent 5 hours trying to save a page and the pages linked from that page. You can play around with depth and filters (God knows what "Each following line is a full URL (with chars following a “#” or space stripped) or a regular expression (e.g. “/^http://example\.com//”). " in the options is supposed to mean,). This is by far the most frustrating, and time wasting Chrome extension that I have ever installed. It simply d... Show more

Danny LinDeveloperMar 14, 2021

We have tested this functionality and do not see any problem. There must be something wrong about your setting. If you want further assistant please provide the source page URL and your configurations (export options and provide its content) for further investigation. Better report to the source repo (https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook) or via email, as we won't receive any notification when you reply this thread here. You can simply choose to give up, though it's quite unlikely that you can find another browser extension that provides such feature.