grasp

grasp

A reliable way of capturing and tagging web pages and content

What is grasp?
grasp is a reliable Firefox add-on that allows you to capture and tag web pages and content. With just a few clicks, you can save the current page title and URL, along with any selected text, comments, or tags, directly to your Org Mode file.
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Stats
Users: 77
Rating: 5.00 (3)
Version: 0.7.1 (Last updated: 2022-12-28)
Creation date: 2019-01-28
Weekly download count: 1
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • notifications
  • activeTab
  • scripting
  • http://localhost/capture
  • https://localhost/capture
Size: 38.66K
URLs: Website
Stats date:

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome
Not available on Edge
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Summary

Grasp implements org-capture for Chrome. It adds button and keybindings to capture current page title and url, possibly selected text, additional comments or tags and sends it into your Org Mode file.

To use it:

  1. Install the extension from and setup hotkeys if necessary
  2. Check out the extension repo at https://github.com/karlicoss/grasp and run server/setup --path /path/to/your/<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/8f552eae64a76ab8144c0c10f09431e975328e3a097cd2163d674eb98ca2e5d5/http%3A//capture.org" rel="nofollow">capture.org</a>

You can find more [recent] information on Github.

Safety
Risk impact

grasp is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

grasp has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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