Reviews for Scrapyard
Scrapyard by gchristnsn
26 reviews
- by Siamak.M, 3 months agoRated 5 out of 5Hi
Finally, I found a real replacement for Scrapbook which works in Quantum Firefox. Thank you very much for this great extension. I wonder how possible that such small number of people are using this?! I’m quite sure others don’t know about it.
Using this extension is very simple and hassle free. You don’t need to setup backend server, which is very hard, to enjoy sidebar features. I’ve been using it for just couple of days. I have a few suggestions.
1- it is impossible to distinguished bookmarked and archived items in sidebar. They both look the same. I think if you put some visual distinctions, ex. Different font, color, etc, would be great.
2- When you click an item in sidebar, it opens in a new tab. Sometimes it will lead to cumulative tabs. It would be great if user could select where the new page opens. For example new pages open in same tab and you could select "open in new tab" by right click.
3-Define shortcut keys for archive or bookmark pages.
Thank you very much.
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Thank you very much for your super quick answer. I couldn't found how can I add a new comment. So I write it here.
Item #1: with small font of sidebar, distinguished between normal and italic fonts is very hard. Especially in some languages which don't use European alphabets (I would send you a screenshot if I knew how). Maybe different colors woks better.
Item #2: I'm sorry. I was blind!!
Another question: what "Maximum depth of saved nested frames" will do? I archived one page changing this item from 0 to 6. I saw no difference.
Thanks again.Developer response
posted 3 months ago1. As it is mentioned in help, archives are distinguished by the italic font.
2. There is an option in settings for this called "Left click opens bookmarks in the active tab". Middle click always opens pages in a new tab.
3. There is a little sense in this, unless to bookmark/archive to the default shelf, because the destination folder should be specified anyway. Consider using iShell commands (also described in help) which speed up things greatly. Developer response
posted 3 months agoYou surely know what you are doing if using an officially unsupported operating system. Scrapyard helper app uses Python 3.10 which supports only Windows 8 or above. It is still possible (at least for v0.5) to install the helper app manually using a Python version supported by Windows 7.- by krasnyi_toster, 7 months agoRated 5 out of 5
- by minux, 9 months agoRated 5 out of 5Great addon, if you were user of SCRAP book , you can't miss this addon, Finally i got a perfecdt alternative for SCRAPBOOK
- by Oiga2206, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by sudo, a year agoRated 3 out of 5What are the reasons for so many pemissions? The rationale beyond it is nowhere to be found, neither here, nor @ github.
Developer response
posted a year agoThe add-on has impressive functionality. If you remove any permission, it will cease to work. Why there are so many permissions exist in WebExtension model? All questions to its inventors. - by Andreas, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Firefox user 16883486, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by SBTL, a year agoRated 4 out of 5I've been using this for a while but recently it's being obnoxious and refusing to save favourites, it made a load of double folders when looking at favourites in the Scrapyard menu, and the icon disappeared a few times.
Just removed it and reinstalled and it's bothering to save them now...
Nope it's broken again.... This is annoying....
I just tried to save a favourite - didn't work - opened the side bar for Scrapyard - tried again and it did save. Deleted favourite - closed side bar - tried to save same one and it worked. Next time I try to save one and it refuses. There is no rhyme or reason to it - it just refuses to work sometimes; most of the time at the moment...
Only way to get it to work is keep the side bar for Scrapyard open >.< WHY?.. What is it's problem?...
Is there a way to delete all of it's data, folders, registry files; as if it had never been installed?.. Then reinstalling it may fix it?...
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It's been behaving the past couple of days...
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The icon has been disappearing many times recently which is irritating because it means having to go to add-ons and switch it off and on to get it back, every time. It hasn't refused to save a favourite for a while though which is good.
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2021.09.20. Update.
It's been working OK for a while. Now its doing it's other favourite bug where in the drop down list, it's all moved to one side, so I can't see the beginnings of the folder names, and can't find where to put favourites >.<Developer response
posted a year agoFirefox integration is just one aspect of Scrapyard. Because a lot of new features were added lately, it was a little bit buggy. I think, generally it's a great bookmarking tool, and all this will settle when it stabilizes.
It turned out that those were bugs that manifest themselves under certain levels of system load and are very hard to debug. I have reworked the Firefox integration to take them into account (v0.12.6), you may try it again.
Since I rarely read reviews, please report any bugs to https://github.com/GChristensen/scrapyard/issues - by Aleks B., a year agoRated 5 out of 5Great add-on! Today it is the only alternative ScrapBook. A big plus is that, the author of the add-on listens to the wishes of users and adds new features. Thank You!
After the latest updates, Scrapyard already has all the there all the necessary functions for archiving web pages and creating bookmarks. Scrapyard this is a perfect replacement ScrapBook for users Firefox Quantum. - by Chuck-7, a year agoRated 5 out of 5Revised Edit! {Thank You, Developer, For Your Kind & Timely Response! I am rather New to Firefox, so am still unaware of some of the Fundamentals.}
I have found no Major issues in my testing so far, Although it would be nice for there to be a bit of Flexibility in Editing the Notations made on the saved Snippets (e.g.: Bold, Italics, Font-Name, Etc.; and perhaps the creation of a little box that would set off the User’s Comments from the Snippet – This Annotation-Box exists is in another Snippet-Saving Extension that I use & is quite nice.)Developer response
posted a year agoPlease use https://github.com/GChristensen/scrapyard/issues, but not ratings to solve problems. Low ratings will help a little.
1. You should have been choosen the shelf/folder where you saved them in the popup window.
2. They should be in these folders.
3. The addon is accessible through the sidebar. You can open it with the dedicated Firefox button or by pressing Alt+Y.
4. If yo do not press Alt+Y, you need to choose Scrapyard in the sidebar through the sidebar drop-down menu at its heading.
Does this solve your problem? - by Firefox user 14376884, a year agoRated 5 out of 5
- by unknown.user, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5So far Scrapyard has been great to use. It does exactly what the developer says it does and then some. For someone who isn't very fastidious about organizing bookmarks this is a godsend. Thank you for making Scrapyard.
If one day Scrapyard could offline save an entire website for offline reading/notation, etc. that would be really something amazing. - by dedmazai1870, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Why on the left screenshot (fragment of the page) there is normal text (Russian), and on the right one after editing, finishing and saving is unreadable?
screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/qIo4kIY.png
url: https://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=50460&start=180#15 - by Firefox user 14243435, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5This is probably the most usable ScrapBook alternative currently available. It is also allows to share links from Android devices which is a very helpful feature.
- by Glassjewel, 2 years agoRated 1 out of 5For the third time this extension delete the whole database (saved Websites).
Trash.Developer response
posted 2 years agoHi, this is failure of a tree-view, all the items should be actually there. This bug was fixed long ago, please turn on add-on updates. - by Jason, 2 years agoRated 4 out of 5Great extension.
My question - where is the the Scrapyard data file stored? What is the name of the file or the folder? - by Firefox user 15666260, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Yeah. Its really functioning original Scrapbook alternative. No 49 FF anymore..
Pros:
* you no need to install exe files into your system to run servers (OMG)
* there is annotating as in good old scrapbook
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Cons:
* I dont see multiple tabs save
* speed is 1.5-2 slower than original Scrapbook (but other alternatives is more slower!)
* if I offline and trying to save webpage - I get clean html or similar - because css files do not save (original Sc can do that)
Good extension. I hope developer will read my review - by C4BS, 2 years agoRated 1 out of 5Does not allow you to create new keywords. Which is the best part about Firefox bookmarks
- by wieland, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5
- by Haendy-Freak, 2 years agoRated 5 out of 5Yaay finally a functioning tool exaclty with Scrapbooks functionality.
- by BrendaEM, 2 years agoRated 1 out of 5Scrapyard has potential, but it appears to needlessly hide everything it can from the user. Uninstalled.
We need to be able to a folder, and see lists of files with known extensions, and a database which is readable by something. If anything goes wrong, it seems un-repairable.
I need the information saved in an atomic(separable) editable, maintainable, repairable format, with a databases that conforms to some known standard.
Between Scrapyard and Webscrapbook, we still do not have a decent Scrapbook replacement : ( - by Firefox user 15385159, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5Thanks. Here a spanish that rarely makes a donation. But for this scraapbook replacement I do it now.
- by Firefox user 13095960, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5Hello, after importing original RDF files, some webpages show garbled code instead of legible words. Besides, can we change the storage directory of imported RDF files? Thank you and best regards!
- by ethos, 3 years agoRated 5 out of 5Thank you for your great work. Could you pls enable it to support "Scrapbook X" data?