FetchFox - Curation Collector

Collects metadata of the current page and saves it to Local Browser Storage for content curation

What is this project for?

I curate a lot of videos, podcasts, and articles online for things like my personal newsletter david.garden/newsletter/, vlogs youtube.com/@BowieBarks, and Mastodon posts @david@tech.lgbt.

To do this curation I do a lot of copypasting between multiple apps and spaces. I have been wanting a tool to make it easier for me to manage my curation, and I'm finally making one!

The goal for this browser extension is to allow me to save the metadata of an article, video, or podcast for sharing to browser storage. I can then filter and sort those links and send them where I will end up using them in the format that I want most. The goal is to save articles and save time!

How do I use it?

Right now I'm developing this browser extension for Firefox, and will try replicating it to other browsers when it is more stable.

To run this as a test extension:

Download the files and unzip them
Open a new tab in Firefox and go to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox in your address bar
Click "Load Temporary Add-on..."
Select the manifest.json file of the extension

To use the extension:

Click "Save Metadata" to save the metadata of the current tab
Click "View Saved Metadata" to see the existing saved pages in a table
Drag and drop rows into the order that you want
Click the "x" button next to a row to delete it
Select a content type to organize your links
Click "Clear All Data" to delete all rows
Click "Export Data" to get export options (currently JSON or Markdown)
Click "Export JSON" to get a JSON file of all saved metadata
Click "Export Markdown" to get a markdown file of select metadata
Use the input and shortcodes under the export buttons to design the format of the Markdown that is exported

Metadata collected:

title
description
url
author
language
type
provider
keywords
section
published date
modified date
copyright
image
video
audio
link sorting type

What if I want to make changes to it?

You are free to fork this for your personal use. It is under active development and will be made for very specific needs before being generalized for anyone to use.

If you think that you come up with something that you want to share back, I'm more than happy to check it out!

davidwolfpaw/FetchFox