Reviews for Wallabagger
Wallabagger by Simounet, Yuriy Evdokimov
Review by Ærion
Rated 4 out of 5
by Ærion, 7 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.
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.
82 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by anon, 2 days agoI have it working on desktop, and I can save articles, but I was hoping to use it mostly from my phone and I can't get that to work at all. There is nothing appearing from wallabag to click on, long press doesn't bring anything up, I can't find anything in the firefox menus. How am I supposed to be using the android mobile addon?
Update: I'm unable to reply to your reply, but I tried your suggestion and it worked. Thanks! Adding it to the plugin documentation would be great, as when I couldn't get it to work I searched previous reviews and found a response from the wallabag team saying the plugin was broken on android due to a change by Firefox, so I thought it must be still broken from then.
Thanks again!Developer response
posted a day agoWhich Firefox for Android version are you using? You should be able to add pages through the extension menu, clicking on "wallabagger". I will add this to the documentation. - Rated 1 out of 5by Andrea-FF19967159, 20 days agoThe UI of this extension (e.g., options page) is full of “[@TOTRANSLATE]” visible on all labels and buttons. Moreover, there are poorly written English phrases, like «Allow Space in tags this disables Space as send tags key use Enter key instead» (???).
Also, the Wallabagger icon is often green even when I haven’t added the page to Wallabag (I’m sure of this; I’ve checked!).
This extension is unprofessionally made and clearly lowers Wallabag’s appeal and value. Sorry to say (note: I’m trying wallabag.it, and I probably won’t pay for premium).Developer response
posted a day agoWhat language are you using? You can help us translating the content into your language through weblate: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/wallabag/wallabagger/.
And I just want you to know that this free tool is made by volunteers, on their free time. So your comment seems very harsh (one star because of the translations?) and unhelpful. - Rated 5 out of 5by Merike Sell, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Richard, 8 months agoI like the service so much, I decided to pay for the cloud storage.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13519399, 10 months agoRecently started requiring https even for self-hosted instances
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17494420, a year ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by indiana, a year agoSorry, doch solange immer sofort gespeichert wird, nicht mehr als 2 Sterne.
Das muss für mich entweder optional sein oder es darf nur nach weiterem aktiven klick (nicht nur das icon) gespeichert werden. Alles andere führt numal oft dazu, das man seine gespeicherten Seiten zumüllt, nur weil man das icon vlt. versehentlich auswählt. Dann muss man umständlich aktiv löschen und nicht aktiv speichern! - Rated 5 out of 5by Wesley Branton, a year ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13430807, a year agoOutdated, does not work on new android, e.g. the extension is not offered or found by Firefox Android.
Developer response
posted a year agoHi there, Firefox for Android changed the way we have to make it works. It's working as expected on Firefox Desktop. One star for an extension you didn't use is kind of rough though. - Rated 5 out of 5by Kelson, a year agoSimilar to Pocket, but you can (optionally) host your own server. Less polished, but it does the job, making it easy to save the current page to read later, with optional tagging in the save dialog.
And it can save the content from the page you're viewing now, which is helpful for sites with login walls.
Setup is a bit clunky, but you only need to do it once. - Rated 5 out of 5by xia, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18511224, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mediaklan, 2 years agoWorks flawlessly with my self-hosted wallabag.
As a [feature request], I would gladly have a darker theme (optional ?) for the popup used to add a page.Developer response
posted 2 years agoThanks a lot for your feedback. I created an issue for this feature request: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabagger/issues/409 - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13875318, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13571576, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MeMi69, 3 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by aguazales, 3 years agoI have the same issue as another reviewer. The addon installs and tries to check the URL I typed in, but "Wallabag URL checked" remains at "Not checked" although "Wallabag permission checked" changes to "Agreed."
Clicking the toolbar button throws an error, "api.GetTags().then is not a function."
Wallabag itself is working fine. I'm using a self-hosted Wallabag instance - Wallabag is hosted on my NAS which is on the same LAN as the machine running Firefox and the addon. I can access the Wallabag instance from my laptop and save articles with it, but the addon stops at the "Wallabag permission checked" step like described above, unfortunately :/ - Rated 4 out of 5by don_dolarson, 3 years agoSo far works good, LibreWolf 116.0.2-1. Let's see how it behaves in long term. Registered, created API token, pasted everything needed in the extension and voila. Setup took less than 5 minutes. Easy peasy even for a noob.
The instruction in extension description is more than enough for setting it up using the wallabang instance. Developer response
posted 4 years agoAre you using a self-hosted instance or wallabag.it? Is it quicker directly through the interface?
Have a nice day.- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16314216, 4 years agoReview after developer response:
The url provided in the developer's response fixed my issue, but this addon is still far, far too complex to set up for the average user.
Previous review:
These instructions don't make any sense if you're a paid subscriber. The firefox addon asks for a url, and none is provided in the instructions. I tried https://app.wallabag.it/ (since I'm a paid subscriber) and the options page still says 'url not checked' so I can't get this thing to work.Developer response
posted 4 years agoHi there, sorry about that. You can fill in the URL with `app.wallabag.it` then click on the test button and authorize the access of this URL. Do you have any installed extension? Can you try it on a fresh Firefox profile?