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WebScrapBook

by Danny Lin

v2.24.3 Updated Oct 14, 2025 489KiB
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Description

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: 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Page editing: A web page can be highlighted, annotated, or edited before or after a capture. 4. 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. (*) 5. Fulltext searching: Each scrapbook can be further indexed for a rich-feature search (using title, fulltext, comment, source URL, create time, modify time, etc.). (*) 6. 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. (*) 7. 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. 8. 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. See Also: * For further information and frequently asked questions, visit the documentation wiki: https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook/wiki/Intro * For better discussion, please report an issue to the source repository: https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook/issues * Donate to support us if you find this tool helpful: https://www.paypal.me/danny0838/5usd
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Reviews (13 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-02
Vladimir Kiselyov

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

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-04
ru ve

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 unfriendly.

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-18
behrouz 40

don't work

★☆☆☆☆2021-03-15
Clement Maloney

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.

★☆☆☆☆2018-03-03
Avi Schwartz

Crashes when trying to import from the original Scrapbook X.

★★☆☆☆2024-01-19
Toyosi Adebola

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

★★☆☆☆2020-04-06
N. Fariba

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

★★☆☆☆2019-05-03
Michael Johnson

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.

★★☆☆☆2018-01-12
zech xu

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

★★☆☆☆2017-10-21
Darren Bardsley

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

★★★☆☆2020-04-09
Mehdi Deilami

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

★★★☆☆2017-12-08
Mirek eS

How can I change the default name of a saved file?

★★★☆☆2017-11-09
Bill Gates

It's buggy in vivaldi. And, also, very not functional. It's not fair to call it scrapbook. Some alternatives is closer to firefox scrapbook, with file system access.

Permissions (11)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu downloads Can manage and monitor downloads scripting Can inject scripts into web pages sidePanel storage Can store data locally in your browser system.display tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs unlimitedStorage webNavigation Can monitor navigation events webRequest Can observe and analyze network traffic webRequestBlocking Can intercept and modify network requests

Details

Version 2.24.3
Updated Oct 14, 2025
Size 489KiB
First Seen Mar 21, 2026