WebScrapBook

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 un... Show more

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 d... Show more

This is my first experience using any such scrapbook extension & setting up the backend server (PyWebScrapBook, as noted in the extension overview). Overall, I'm very satisfied. It does fail on some sites, but after spending some time tweaking the settings I've been able to use it successfully on most sites I've needed it for. There are plenty of options & features, definitely more than enough to handle nearly any task for which I've needed this extension. I like that it's an ongoing project ... Show more