1 Wallabagger

Holger edited this page 2025-01-03 09:22:05 +01:00

Table of Contents

• Main Purposes - when wallabag is failing because of...
• How it works
• Keyboard Shortcuts:
• Disadvantages
• Links

Wallabagger is a browser add-on available for most desktop browsers.

Main Purposes - when wallabag is failing because of...

• Some websites using JavaScript to generate the content on the user's browser or to detect a bot. In this cases, wallabag is not able to fetch the content, just by sending the article's URL to the server.
• Some websites needs you to login, to get the full content of an article. Some of them could be handled by wallabag's UI, if the siteconfig for that domain is already able to handle logins, but that is only a minor count of domains yet.

How it works

By standard, the wallabagger add-on is just sending the article's URL wallabag, which doesn't help with the problems from above.

But wallabagger is also able to grab the already received/generated/rendered content from your browser and sending this full content to the wallabag server. You just have to activate this in the settings of the add-on. You can do this as standard for all domains or you can define a list of domains to do that:

Keyboard Shortcuts:

If you have enabled 'Retrieve content from the browser' as default, you have two shortcuts:

• Alt+W to fetch full content from browser and send it to wallabag
• Shift+Alt+W to send just the URL and let wallabag server fetch the content itself

Disadvantages

Unfortunately, by 'fetching content from the browser' feature, the following things will not work (yet):

• The article title is always fetched from the