Just like the good old Evernote Web Clipper, (that will turn your knowledge base into a trash bin…)
Or you can download the zip from Github Release, and load unzipped extension via developer settings GitHub - tiddly-gittly/Browser-Extension-Tiddlywiki-Collector: Clip web contents into TiddlyWiki (NodeJS Ver./TidGi APP) and use TiddlyWiki as a bookmark.
This seems to work very well. If combined with immersive translation, bilingual articles can be quickly saved.
No single file wiki support?
Don’t forget we already have TiddlyClip for it
Clipping 100MB ~ 1GB of website and images into an HTML might sound horrible, but storing 1GB of images or 30k of tiddlers won’t have a significant performance impact in NodeJS Wiki / TidGi App. (What I’m currently doing and already have), so I’m using NodeJS wiki instead of HTML version after 2019.
Yes, because TidGi app is a one-click launcher for NodeJS wiki. See
TidGi Feature Handbook/Clipping Webpage
Before starting, make sure you have already Enabling HTTP API.
This extension does exactly what I need and I would really be able to get it working (Firefox).
Once configured, I always get an error message “Tide-Desktop 64635 Disconnected NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource”.
My Tiddlywiki is served by node js v18.20.4 and I have successfully installed pnpm.
In the extension’s options I chose TidGi-Desktop (although I don’t use this app but didn’t see an option for standard Tiddlywiki) and entered my nodejs uri: http://192.168.4.100:8080. (Understand this is not an API but I don’t have one).
What’s wrong?
It uses standard NodeJS api, and you can change server name from “Tide-Desktop 64635" to anything you like.
Make sure you can access the nodejs uri in the browser. And try use http://localhost:8080 instead of ip
I’m confused by what you mean by NodeJS API. I access my wiki with http://192.168.4.100:8080 which is a linux server hosting nodejs and my wiki files. I can’t use http://localhost:8080 since there is no server running on my local host.
I still have the error message but at least this morning I got within the plugin’s window the wikitext of a markdown tiddler opened in my browser. I had to manually select/copy and paste into a new text/vnd.tiddlywiki tiddler to complete the conversion which is great, although I think your plugin can do this for me (if it can write to nodejs).
Thank you for your plugin and help.
So it does save the tiddler? Usually if you pick the WikiText tab, it will save as wikitext, not markdown.
If so, the error might be it trying to run a fitler to load all tags, and failed, because you haven’t
creating a tiddler titled $:/config/Server/AllowAllExternalFilters with the text “yes”
See https://tiddlywiki.com/#WebServer%20API%3A%20Get%20All%20Tiddlers
You can only enable [tags[]] filter if you know how to. The source code that runs this filter is opensourced here Github
If so, I may add this to readme.
No, it doesn’t save anything.
The problem seems to be that the plugin can’t access my nodejs server (and this also is what the error message says).
I am a very basic user of nodejs, actually I use it only to serve Tiddlywiki. I saw on your website an example of a url localhost:5212 so I guess that my TiddlyWiki server address ending with :8080 isn’t an API url…
I probably need to do something on my nodejs server to get a server API port? Am I right? If so, could you please lead me to a nodejs explanation to set this up?
Thank you very much linonetwo. 
Have you tried 192.168.4.100:8080/recipes/default/tiddlers.json? Can you access it? Also try 192.168.4.100:8080/recipes/default/tiddlers.json?filter=[tags[]] . This is the easiest way to know if your server is providing API.
I think extension it self is working, you can try use it with TidGi Desktop https://tidgi.fun/ , if you are not a technical person. Or you can start a new post in the forum about this issue, because I think it is not relevant to clipper extension now.
I can access both these urls from Firefox.
I got the following 2 warnings about your plugin after going to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox (in the address bar). Not sure if this could be related:
After clicking on “Examiner” I got these details:
I also disabled most of Firefox security and privacy settings to make sure they were not interfering.
Still no success. Anyway if I find anything I’ll post it here in case someone else would face the same issue.
Thank you.
I see, this is OK, I also have this in about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox , but note that my uuid is b022af37-6fb5-4c06-9ca2-76b205b10447, if this isn’t unique for each user, then you might not using latest version v0.6.0 ?
Usually it can load your tags list in the config, so you can add default plugins, is that work for you? I can confirm it works with my TidGi app’s HTTP API on my Mac.
I tried my local IP http://10.100.1.117:5217/, and it show the same error! So maybe for security, Firefox block the request to any other server, you can only send request to the localhost. Anyway, at least it works with TidGi app, that is it originially designed for.
Is it related with CORS?
The error is NS_ERROR_GENERATE_FAILURE(NS_ERROR_MODULE_SECURITY, SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG), means it try to use https for security.
So maybe if you don’t use TidGi app’s free localhost http API, you will need to setup a HTTPS for your remote server API. http:// is only for localhost, for remote you will need “s” in https://192.168.4.100:8080/
This is what I guess, I don’t have such server to test now.
Is there any way to set a username and a password to save the clip to a password protected tiddlywiki instantiation?
@linonetwo Your last comment remembered me that I have the Firefox https everywhere plugin activated, so I deactivated it and tried again.
No success. 
Changing http to https means I need a proxy server on the nodejs server. I don’t really have such a need as this server isn’t exposed to the Internet, only local lan.
Still I may install one and test this later. Thank you for following up.
It might be Firefox’s limination, even on my PC and local TidGi, changing localhost to ip will prevent it working.
So maybe firefox only support localhost connection or https ip connection.
So it is best to use TidGi app on PC directly.
