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alexadam / save-as-ebook

Save a web page/selection as an eBook (.epub format) - a Chrome/Firefox/Opera Web Extension
MIT License
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Request for the Ability to add links as chapters #8

Open jane-t opened 7 years ago

jane-t commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the great extension.

It would be really helpful to be able to select a set of links from a page and add them all as chapters. I read a lot of Fan-Fiction and it would make life easyier when adding 20 or 30 pages to an ebook if I could simply select the all the chapter links and add them as chapters.

alexadam commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the message and for the suggestion! The problem is that, because of security restrictions (as far as I know) a web extension can only extract data from the current page. In order to add links as chapter you need a way to visit the respective page and extract data, then add it as a chapter. This could be easily done with a server utility... but it's not feasible to offer it as a 'free' service (from a lot of reasons like security, abuse and legal stuff) I will do some research to see if there any workarounds. Thanks.

jane-t commented 7 years ago

Thanks for looking at this. It's a really nice clean extension. Another possible option would be to add "hooks" for shortcut keys, the gmail extension I have allows several shortcut keys to be set, and it would be great if I could add a page direct to the chapter option with out having to move the mouse to the menu.

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/commands