Reviews for Wallabagger
Wallabagger by Yuriy Evdokimov, Simounet
75 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by beyanora, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sterntaler, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by GKC, 4 years agoI have been using Wallabag for a long time. This extension will not save pages to my account after the configuration.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi there,
Sorry to hear that. Are you using wallabag.it or a self hosted? Can you validate the first step with the URL?
I'll we glad to help you. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16508515, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Durochka, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16258748, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13502145, 5 years agoI am a hobbyist in computation, but not clumsy, an d I still spent 30 minutes setting up the addon. Some comments
1. the link on how to set it up takes to google-chrome, which is not the best. Within that doc the link in "First of all you have to create a new client on your wallabag installation. How to do that is described in Documentation" is not working. Anyhow, I managed to do the client.
2. While setting up the addon preferences (nice that it takes you there when error in import) I didnt know what to write in wallabag url. I assume this option is necessary for self-hosted (I have no idea), but when I tried at first the default app.wallabag.it it wasn't checking Ok. I spent all the time up and down your documentation to find the app url, assuming it was related to client; stupid me I even tested the one in your example "v2.wallabag.org", and I think that finally restarting firefox changed something in cache or whatever that captured the default url as a correct one.
3. A Youtube/vimeo video would be helpful. - Rated 5 out of 5by frost, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by leyouki, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fizzygilespie, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Marko R., 5 years agoExcellent extension! Great alternative for Pocket or Instapaper.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lada, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sohka, 5 years agoThank you for this extension ! It should be a recommended one :)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Riska Asmara, 5 years agoNot very beginner friendly but if you can make it run then you have your own selfhosting pocket.it version
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHello there,
Can you tell us what we should do to make it better please? - Rated 4 out of 5by Baptiste Mille-Mathias, 6 years agoGreat functionalities
Some features I'd like to see
* tag suggestions taken from the page tag when it has its own tags
* more responsive for tagging completion (it seems to be a bit slow to fetch them)
* when wallabag is unable to parse the article, the extension should notify wallabag developer on behalf of user. - Rated 5 out of 5by Stranger46, 6 years agoGreat alternative to Pocket. I bought their own instance for 9€ / year, great deal!
To use it, and also to solve the problems about "not working with latest Firefox" etc., you simply need to go your wallabag website, and Create a new Client (in "API clients management"). That's all. It will solve any problem with "not saving" also.
Good job devs! - Rated 5 out of 5by Simon, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14349730, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14989594, 6 years agoConfiguring it is super counter intuitive. I have a paid hosting on app.wallabag.it and yet setting up the addon needs to create a client on the website, pasting it back on the addons settings page and still entering the password anyways, or maybe not, very unclear. I then realized that before setting it up it was not saving anything. So I just LOST all the pages I bookmarked before figuring out how to connect the plugin to my account. And the wallabag plugin doesn't indicate in anyways that it is linked to a server or not. No color change, no error messages. So I was just casually bookmarking pages with the idea that they were getting saved....But they are gone. Now that I linked to the server, I was hopping that it would sync a kind a local buffer, but no luck with that.. Wallabag is great, but the Firefox addon is just crap.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi there,
We are really sorry to ear that your experience was not great enough and you are absolutely right about your issues. We just released a new version opening the settings page after the extensions being installed. We will try to display a better warning when configuration is not ok.
Thanks a lot for helping us to understand what our users need.
Have a nice day and we hope that your current daily experience is better. - Rated 4 out of 5by Ærion, 6 years agoWallabag 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by James, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13603812, 6 years agoThe 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?Developer response
posted 6 years agoHi,
Sorry for the late reply. It should be working now.
Have a nice day and thanks for the kind review. - Rated 5 out of 5by Bonaparte, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by gZL2mGVQ, 7 years ago