Wallabag is an adequate substitute for Pocket, being fully open source, and with the ability to self host it if you don't want to trust the two main hosted instances.

It's not quite as slick as Pocket, but I find that goes for many, otherwise perfectly usable, open source equivalents for commercial products and services. What let's it down though it the complexity of configuring the add-on with your account credentials.

The instructions could be clearer as to what to do exactly when you have an account with

1) framabag.org
2) wallabag.it
3) self hosted

While self hosting is beyond the skills of ordinary users, many users of the aforementioned hosted instances still won't have a clue what an API is or how to set up a client.

I could not give Wallabag and the Wallabagger add-on to my family and most of my friends, without having to do the configuration for them. With Pocket no such problem.

This is a pitfall of many open source products, many of which are created to scratch an itch for the developer, who by definition is technical enough to not need a user friendly UI.

As this add-on works well, once configured, I've only docked one star; more hand holding for novice users and a slicker presentation and overall experience is all that stops this from earning a fully 5 star rating.

The module works fine on my Linux laptop with Firefox 60 but I can't configure it on Firefox for Android as the configuration fields are not visible: I can see the labels but not the fields.
Edit: I rotated the screen and added the url of my own wallabag server then clicked on "test url" but nothing happened... (Checked also with app.wallabag.it, nothing happened too)
Version 1.5.0 of the module
Edit2 Also the howto page gives an error:
Server Error

Sorry, something went terribly wrong!
E_WARNING - session_write_close(): write failed: No space left on device (28)


Edit Jan. 17, 2019: Hello, thanks for the answer. Indeed, the help page now works but not the add-on, sadly. Still exactly the same problem: still need to rotate the phone for displaying (at least partially) the parameters and the "test url" link does absolutely nothing even with the app.wallabag.it link.
Furthermore, the help only speaks of a Chrome add-on, not the Firefox one... Is it working on Android Firefox?

EDIT/ADDENDUM:
(replying to Simounet, below) Thanks for the fast reply! (I can't figure out how to 'reply' to 'replies' so doing it here....)

I'm using Firefox 61.0.2 and Chromium 59.0.3071.109 on Ubuntu 16.10

I installed Wallabag on subdomain my shared hosting server via a one-click installer, and after fussing with the url (it wanted https://mysubdomain.com/web/ and not just https://mysudomain.com even though it is installed in root directory) IT WORKED. And it works great! Five stars for this and fast replies.

One suggestion: It would be great to mention somewhere really obvious on the wallabag site that these one-click installers for wallabag exist for shared hosting set-ups... It didn't even occur to me until I stumbled across a mention on a random blog-post... the instructions here: https://doc.wallabag.org/en/admin/installation/installation.html#on-shared-hosting
they are pretty crytpic....

thanks! recommend this, but be prepared for some fussiness maybe

PF

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Hi! Just getting started with Wallabagger and Wallabag today... really love it... in theory... :)

I can get Android Wallabagger to sync my (trial) account app.wallabag.it no problem, this is great.

I _can't_ get Firefox or Chromium Wallabagger extension to sync at all... I press 'check URL' and nothing happens; nothing in the console or anything. I tried disabling all extensions, fresh install of Chromium etc. (tips gleaned from various forums) and still nothing.

However, when I test connect to Framabag.org, it works! (I don't have a key, so it just shows me Chuck Norris etc.) Also, the bookmarklet works fine, but would be really interested in being able to tag etc.

Anyone else having this problem? Any tips? Fully, fully ready to 5 star this if I can get it to work...

Apologies for cross-posting.

-PF

EDIT: (replying to SImounet, below) Thanks for the fast reply! Apologies I can't

An excellent totally-opensource alternative to other read-it-later services

Great Open Source service, I recommend it as a Pocket alternative.

"You can get the Client ID and the Client secret from the wallabag's API clients management part. If you don't have any existing client, you can create one following these steps..."

???????????????

In short, having reinstalled firefox and lost my authentication token, I can't log in anymore, can't get a new token because I can't figure out how to make that happen (see above), and just can't be bothered with this. Life is too short.

Very useful and working well once configured, but setup might be a bit hard for novice users.

no es mi gusto

Great !!

Works fine if you manage to get through all the hops for initial configuration (Firefox 58.0.1). It didn't picked up my url and didn't showed the rest of the settings (api id, secret etc.) until I restarted Firefox and after I filled the rest of the authentication info it reported the token as expired until the next Firefox restart.
Once it was working I exported the addon configuration (thanks for adding that option) I realized that it is storing passwords in plain text, please, never do this! To be fair, I am not sure if there is support for this in current Firefox api.

But anyway, thanks a lot for providing this addon!

Edit 12.02.2018:
Came back to take back one more start as this addon sends every url you have visited to the wallabag instance you are using (namely to yourwallabag/api/entries/exists.json) even if you never touched the wallabagger button, I find this quite a bad practice.

Excellente, vivement qu'on puisse se connecter avec mot de passe et login, sans avoir besoin de créer ID et token...

I run my own wallabag server , this plugin on desktop and android integrates and works perfectly.
Thank you to everyone involved in the projects!

I simply love it .Running my own bag and have the client on different browsers and devices. It just works! Thanks for this wonderful piece of software!

I run my own wallabag instance and this works perfectly with Firefox v57. Great work devs!

Module que l'on configure comme une appli Android, avec id et token.

Peut-être ajouter un affichage des articles enregistrés pour ajouter un peu de fonctionnalité.

Merci!

Essential

Wallabagger is one of the first extensions I install on any new computer (in addition to Firebug). As a bookmark hoarder, I don't know how I managed before I discovered Wallabag and Wallabagger.

So good. Works perfectly with "cloud" version from app.wallabag.it.

Thanks a lot Yuriy & Simounet.

Later

Thanks for the add-on, very handy!

But, since a while, right-click save stopped working for me. The toolbar button turns red, although saving the article via the toolbar button works fine.

Using Firefox 52.0.2 (64-Bit) on Linux.


issue created: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabagger/issues/78