Today I spent some time looking at how ScrapBook stores information. It's a bit of a mixed bag, with some plain text files, some XML, some HTML (besides the saved pages themselves). I managed to figure out how it stores folder structure, bookmarks, saved pages, and annotations. Fortunately there's no database, and no encryption, so I can write a tool to extract the information if needed.
The remaining question becomes: how to replace it? What other tool supports all this?:
* Local saving (as opposed to cloud)
* Storing source URL with support for re-fetching
* Bookmarks (for pages that won't save locally in a useful way, such as YouTube)
* "Deep saving," saving the main page AND linked pages, and keeping them bundled together
* Full text search
* Probably other features I do not recall offhand
Even if I can get the data out, it's hard to know where to put it. Most solutions these days are cloud-oriented, which is unappealing to me. I could build my own stand-alone replacement, but what a headache. I could fork ScrapBook and try to make it work with the latest Firefox, but I have no experience in the plugin domain, nor the time to prioritize learning it.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just trying to figure out how to proceed without severe productivity loss.
I'd look at the Zotero standalone, but that's just an offhand guess. Other than that, I got nothin' - except 52 ESR, which is good for security updates until some time next year, and won't get the breaking changes from 57.
The remaining question becomes: how to replace it? What other tool supports all this?:
* Local saving (as opposed to cloud)
* Storing source URL with support for re-fetching
* Bookmarks (for pages that won't save locally in a useful way, such as YouTube)
* "Deep saving," saving the main page AND linked pages, and keeping them bundled together
* Full text search
* Probably other features I do not recall offhand
Even if I can get the data out, it's hard to know where to put it. Most solutions these days are cloud-oriented, which is unappealing to me. I could build my own stand-alone replacement, but what a headache. I could fork ScrapBook and try to make it work with the latest Firefox, but I have no experience in the plugin domain, nor the time to prioritize learning it.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just trying to figure out how to proceed without severe productivity loss.