Request: Save entry to file

birchill / 10ten-ja-reader

A browser extension to translate Japanese by hovering over words.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/10ten-ja-reader/

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Request: Save entry to file #88

Open alexninja opened 5 years ago

alexninja commented 5 years ago

Rikaichan used to have this feature that I used a lot: 'S' would append the currently highlighted entry to a text file on disk. It would be great to have this...

birtles commented 5 years ago

As far as I'm aware, it's not longer possible for Web Extensions to write to arbitrary files on disk. I had a look at various docs and that seems to be still the case. (I'm working on something that I hope will help with this but it won't be ready until later this year.)

ianhenderson commented 3 years ago

Just curious if any progress has been made on this feature? I used this quite a bit myself in the past and AFAICT no other similar (rikai-style) plugins can do it at the moment.

alexninja commented 3 years ago

As a compromise, could it save the data to some sort of browser storage? I would happily copy it out of a textbox field somewhere in the Rikaichamp interface.