Capture From Browser — Precompute

This is a Web Extension (for Firefox / Chrome / Chromium) that extracts the current page title, url and highlighted text and sends it to a local server. This allows the you to "capture" the content you highlight in a local file.

Website: https://precompute.github.io/capture-from-browser/
Source Code (GPLv3): https://github.com/precompute/capture-from-browser/

Feature Requests, Bug Reports and Pull Requests are always welcome!

Ideal for note-taking and saving highlights to a personal file / exobrain.

• Easily change default port
• Markdown toggle (boolean flag sent to backend)
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Textbox for additional context
• Local log of previous requests (no selection data logged)
• Completely Private: local-only, open source (GPLv3)

The extension POSTs the following JSON to (selected port)/api/capture, which the user should write a server against:

"source_url": "string",
"page_title": "string",
"selection_text": "string",
"selection_html": "string",
"context": "string",
"markdown": boolean,
"timestamp": "ISO8601"


The github repo contains a simple server in golang as well.