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RSpace Web Clipper

Save web content from Chromium based browsers directly to your RSpace documents with one click.

Features

  • ✅ Quick saving of web content
  • NEW: Save entire pages as PDF files
  • ✅ Auto-capture source URL and ISO timestamp
  • ✅ Add notes (optional)
  • ✅ Save to existing or new RSpace documents

⚠️ Please read before proceeding

  • 🚧 This is a prototype, almost entirely written and reviewed using AI tools.
  • 📱Submission to the chrome web store is envisioned, but we'd like to collect some feedback first.
  • 📥 If you find any quirks, issues, and have general ideas and suggestions for improving the code and/or the functionality, please reach out!

1. Install

  1. Download the files in this repository into a local folder or clone the GitHub repository to your local machine
  2. Open Chrome → go to chrome://extensions/ (for other Chromium browsers the address might be different, typically {browsername}://extensions/)
  3. Turn on "Developer mode" (top right)
  4. Click "Load unpacked" → select the extension folder on your local machine
  5. Done! Look for the RSpace icon in your browser toolbar

2. Connect

  1. Click the RSpace icon
  2. Enter your RSpace server URL (e.g., community.researchspace.com)
  3. Enter your API key (Get it from: My RSpace → My Profile → API Key (Read more)
  4. Click Connect

3. Start Clipping

  1. Go to any webpage
  2. Click the RSpace icon
  3. Choose what to save:
    • Selection - text you selected in your browser window
    • Full Page - entire page (representation in RSpace might deviate)
    • URL Only - just the link and the page tile
    • PDF - 🆕 save entire page as PDF file attached to document
  4. Select a document (or create a new one) ⚠️ currently only works with simple documents and not yet with Forms
  5. (Optional) Add any additional comments
  6. Click Save to RSpace

That's it! ✨


Need Help?

  • Report any problems you encounter or any functionality you're missing via the issue tracker on this repository.

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