Presentation of our new Chrome addon, by Rurik19

18 November 2016

If you want to add articles in your wallabag account, you can use the classc form. You can also install browser extensions.
Yuriy Evdokimov (@Rurik19) developed the new Chrome addon which supports wallabag v2.

Here is the howto for this addon. Thank you Yuriy!

Wallabagger howto

Wallabagger is a chrome extension to add pages to wallabag, with the ability to:

Requirements

Installation

You can install Wallabagger from these ways:

Options

First of all you have to create a new client on your wallabag installation. How to do that is described in Documentation

What we need from that client is two strings: Client ID and Client secret.

Client

Access options page

After the installation of Wallabagger extension you can setup it by going to the options page. This page is accessible by

Setup process

Security warning

In this version of the extension your password is stored in the browser local storage as a plain text and could be retrieved by anyone with access to your computer. The password encryption will be implemented in future versions.

Usage

Saving article

After installation and successful setup you can add articles to wallabag by clicking on the Wallabagger extension icon

icon

wait a couple of seconds

Saving

(There also may be message "Obtaining wallabag api token" if the application token is expired (once in two weeks)) If something goes wrong, an error message appears:

Error

In that case, check your options.

If there was no errors, main window with saved article appears. Note: if the article from this URL was already saved, this article will appear with its tags, title, and flags (starred, archived).

Article

Article window

The article window consists from:

Title

Domain

Working with tags

Tags applied to the article appear in the tags area before the input field. You can remove a tag from an article by clicking on the cross symbol next to the tag.

Article tags

When you type the name of a new tag in the input field, after three letters, Wallabagger begins to search in existing tags. Found tags appear on the bottom of the input field. You can add them by clicking on them or by pressing the right arrow key.

Found tag

You can add typed in input field tag by pressing ",", ";" or the Space key (if you didn't checked the option "Use space in tags" inside the extension settings) or the Enter key (if you checked the option)

[New release] wallabag 2.1.4 [New release] wallabag 2.1.3

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