Add to Firefox
Add to Chrome
Very easy setup
Install it and start saving right away, with almost no configuration. To keep archives in a folder or on a server, add the small backend app. On Windows it comes with an automated installer.
Keep the page, not just the link.
Scrapyard is a bookmarking extension with a polished interface and easy setup that keeps a faithful copy of the pages you save.
The sidebar
Browse
Shelves, folders and every saved page in one tree, with search and a shelf menu within reach.
The capture popup
Capture
Name it, pick a folder, add tags. Then choose Bookmark to save just a link, or Archive for a full copy.
01What it is
Links rot. Pages get edited, paywalled, moved or deleted. Scrapyard stores the whole page, or just the part you need, so what you saved still opens when the original doesn't.
Two ways to save a page
Bookmarks
Save the address, with a name, tags and notes. Light and instant, for pages you expect to stay where they are.
Archives
Save a copy of the page as you saw it, layout and images included. Or only a selected fragment, or a PDF. It opens offline, and after the original is gone.
Either way, the page goes into a tree of folders in the sidebar. Scrapyard lets you create any number of trees, called shelves, so you can keep each subject on its own.
Coming from the legacy ScrapBook add-on? Scrapyard can copy its RDF folders into its own storage, or open them in place and keep editing them.
02Features
Four things it gets right.
A polished, familiar interface
Browse a folder tree in the sidebar, filter it as you type, and save from a one-click popup or with Alt+Q and Alt+W. Archives are set in italics or could be colored, so they stand apart from plain bookmarks.
Faithful capture
Complete HTML pages, page fragments and PDF documents are saved the way you saw them, layout and images included.
A shelf for every subject
Create as many shelves as you need and keep each subject in a tree of its own. The built-in Everything shelf lets you browse and search all of them at once.
Choose where archives live.
Filesystem
Kept in a folder you choose. Needs the Scrapyard backend app on your computer.
Server
Kept on a server you host, on your LAN or online. A VPN is advised when self-hosting online.
Browser storage
Kept inside the browser profile. No backend app needed, but only for simple use cases.
And the rest of the toolkit.
Rich text notes on any bookmark or archived page Editing of the saved pages Firefox bookmark integration Cloud bookmarking Bookmark TODO states Full-text search
03Shelves
Everything, or one thing.
The menu above the tree picks the shelf. Leave it on everything and the tree lists all you saved; choose a subject and it narrows to that shelf alone.
04Text interface
Bookmark with a sentence.
Scrapyard also works with iShell, a keyboard-first command prompt. It follows the interface principles of Jef Raskin, author of The Humane Interface, to cut the bookmarking down to three steps: summon the prompt with Ctrl+Space, say where the page goes, press Enter.
One prompt
One place to type
There are no buttons to hunt for with the mouse and no folder trees to explore. Destination folder names are autocompleted.
No modes
Nothing to switch into
The prompt appears over the page and vanishes when the command runs, so your attention never leaves what you are reading.
Habit
Fewer actions, then habit
One line saves the page and names the folder it belongs in. Say it a few times and it becomes muscle memory.
05Use cases
Four ways to use it.
Small situations where a plain bookmark falls short.
The tutorial that got taken down
You bookmarked a how-to last spring. Today the link is a 404. Your archived copy still opens, layout and images intact, even without a connection.
The one useful paragraph
A forum thread runs to forty pages and you need a single answer. Select it and press Archive, and only that fragment is kept.
The paper you'll need again
You find a PDF in a journal. Archive it into the same folder as the pages that cite it, so the source and the discussion stay together.
The reading list that sorts itself
Mark an article you'll get to someday as to do, waiting or postponed, and it appears on the built-in TODO shelf. Mark it done and it moves to the DONE shelf.