Reviews & Comments of WebScrapBook chrome extension

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.

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.

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 does not work! Lastly, I tried both the Chrome and Firefox versions and only ever end up with the orginal page being saved i.e. no subpages.

Worked perfectly with my old scrapbook files, thank you!! Can import and handle thousands of entries with no problem. The search function is infinitely better than the old scrapbook. Once again thank you so much for this extension.

This is my first experience using any such scrapbook extension & setting up the backend server (PyWebScrapBook, as noted in the extension overview). Overall, I'm very satisfied. It does fail on some sites, but after spending some time tweaking the settings I've been able to use it successfully on most sites I've needed it for. There are plenty of options & features, definitely more than enough to handle nearly any task for which I've needed this extension. I like that it's an ongoing project that's still being updated regularly. I see there are a number of negative reviews from individuals who are upset that this doesn't work like some other scrapbooks they've used in the past (EVEN SOME IN ALL CAPS). This seems to be a common thing reviewers like to do. In my opinion these comparisons are somewhat of an unfair basis for 1-star & 2-star ratings. If there are other options that some users enjoy using more, they should use those extensions/scrapbooks instead. I think it would be absurd, for example, if were to go out of my way to purchase a pack of markers specifically by BrandX and then left negative reviews because they're not BrandY, rather than evaluating BrandX based on its own qualities. Some 1-star reviews are clearly written by users who couldn't bother to follow basic configuration instructions or even take a simple look around the menus/folders. I wish ppl would stop doing this s*** not just here but in all their reviews. I just checked github, and it looks like are commits from as recently as 3 hours ago; like I said, this is an ongoing project, and I'm excited to see where the contributors take it. My only criticism as of right now is that, after updating my chrome, firefox, and edge extensions, and updating to the newest server version, chrome extension v 78.2 (the most recent version available in the store) is giving error 'Server app requires extension version >= 0.79.0'. But the FF extension is working perfectly fine. Again, I'm seeing github activity as recently as today, so anticipate that this will be resolved very soon.

Works flawlessly for me

Seems like the extension doesn't use the cache and re-grabs the resources which is kind of inefficient

Not working. I set Address: http://localhost:8080/ but ger error: Backend initilization error: Unable to connect to backend server.

NOT THE SAME AS ORIGINAL SCRAPBOOK AT ALL. THE ONLY THING THAT IS THE SAME IS THE FRIGGIN' ICON! CONFUSING, POPUP BOXES, NO WAY TO "VIEW" THE SCRAPBOOK, NOTHING. I'VE TRIED TO FIGURE THIS OUT FOR THREE HOURS....WHERE ARE THE SAVED PAGES?...GEEZ. NO MARKUPS, HIGHLIGHTING, NOTHING....THIS IS (NOT) THE ORIGINAL FIREFOX EXTENSION....NOT EVEN A "CLOSE" COPY OF IT. (EXCEPT THE FRIGGIN' ICON). SAD. ****IF ANYONE KNOWS OF A GREAT ALTERNATIVE TO THE ORIGINAL FF SCRAPBOOK...PLZ POST!!!!! THANKS!

This extension works great! There are still some sites that it fails on, but very few and this is work in progress (check out developer's github), so the extension gets better! Excellent job and keep it up please!

I tried this app to save webpages completely and accurately. It works on some pages like ghacks.net perfectly with scripted single html . On other pages like nytimes.com it captures the page out of sync even though all of the content seems to be there (large gap spaces, enlarged photos, etc.) Save Page WE has the same issue. On Washingtonpost.com WebScrapbook was almost perfect but there is a bug that will add incorrect characters if there is an apostrophe in the text(which in a news article there will undoubtedly be). I used scripted single html option on this also. I do have specific scripts for the Times and WPost running, but they are not the issue since Mozilla Archive Format and SingleFile always works perfectly on the same sites with the same scripts running. But since MAF doesnt work for current browsers and SingleFile works somewhat inconsistently (it stalls a lot), I was hoping WebScrapbook would work but no go. Also, I havent seen an option to save the original page url either in the title or in the .html file for reference like MAF, Singlefile, or SavePage WE can. This app might be able to save websites but if it cant do it accurately what's the point of using it.

Seems to work well. One thing it seems to lack that the old Firefox add in did, is drill down beyond the current tab. I'd like to copy a web page and the linked files as well, but it does not go beyond, even though I can click on the linked files and capture them individually. Is this a supported option I don't see or is it planned to be supported in the future?

Thou this is NOT the same as Firefox's Scrapbook, but this extension can READ and WRITE to the now deprecated Firefox .maff (I have hundreds of them, and I think maff is great format, see the discussion on the WebScrapbook github). The limitation is this extension currently limited to single tab .maff. Based on the discussion in the WebScrapbook github this might change in the near future. Thank you for the developer for creating such a nice extension.

Crashes when trying to import from the original Scrapbook X.

not working in the same way with firefox scrapbook at all.

Just miss the organizer like in Firefox's old version. But is just great to have single-html and maff features. Thanks!

Just saves the page which you can do anyway. I need something like Firefox's Scrapbook.