I’m considering Airtable for information gathering as I browse the Web. One tool I currently use is Trello along with the “Add to Trello” extension for chrome and safari which nicely adds the URL and title for the page I’m viewing and creates a new card/record in a specific Trello board and list both of which can be specified within the extension. Simple and powerful. I could only convert to airtable if I had something similar.
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Auto-populating a field with the site’s URL works already - that’s the main point of the extension. It’s basically a bookmarking extension that you can customize with extra fields.
You can also drag/drop the URL address field of your browser into a regular text field and it will copy the URL - that works if there is some secondary URL you want to save in the database such as the location of a picture.
No coding needed for any of the above. I’m a physician doing writing/content work; I was a programmer in a past life but not now. It works fine for me now as above - I have not done any coding to make it work. All
I had to do was to edit the JSON in the configuration section.
Okay, after a fresh look this AM, I was able to figure out a simple version that works. Thank you, Adam
Okay, after a fresh look this AM, I was able to figure out a simple version that works. Thank you, Adam
You are awesome, I really appreciate you adding all this code!
How hard would it be to add a screenshot function to this extension? Optimally, it would be a button that triggers a select field, so user can select the part of the screen (just like any of the existing chrome extensions, e.g “Awesome Screenshot”) and then send to airtable.
This would be amazing for research etc.
Hi,
Making a screenshot of the current page is not quite difficult, sending to Airtable it is.
When sending images from the current page to AirTable what is been sent to the API is the url of the image.
For a screenshot, after the image is created it should be saved somewhere and then sent the new url to AirTable.
It would be amazing but I would need a server to store the image at least temporarily.
Hi,
Making a screenshot of the current page is not quite difficult, sending to Airtable it is.
When sending images from the current page to AirTable what is been sent to the API is the url of the image.
For a screenshot, after the image is created it should be saved somewhere and then sent the new url to AirTable.
It would be amazing but I would need a server to store the image at least temporarily.
Man, that was painful, but I finally got it to work. I had no idea there were instructions hidden below the code! I hope you’ll move them up to the top. Similar to Nelson’s comment, I would love it if it could create a PDF of the page and send it to Airtable, along with the other fields. Any chance of that?
We’ve definitely been thinking about something like this, and there are a lot of different potential directions in which an Airtable browser extension could go.
If there were an Add to Airtable extension, how do you think you would use it? Would you be using it to save interesting internet articles to read later, to bookmark recipes, to do academic research, etc., or something else? How would you envision it looking? Would you want it to function pretty similar to the Add to Trello extension (in which the web page you’re on gets added as a record to a table in a base)? Or would you want something more like Pinterest, in which you can clip images to save them for later?
I am considering AirTable but the lack of web clipper is a show stopper for me. To make this work from a researcher’s perspective, I would need an extension from Chrome/Safari that lets me capture:
- URL
- Screen shot
- PDF version
- date clipped
- full reference information for capturing APA/Chicago style citations, similar to Zotero’s web clipper.
- the ability to extract the full citation from the table later would make this a serious competitor to Evernote and Zotero since it would be all in one!
Hi,
Making a screenshot of the current page is not quite difficult, sending to Airtable it is.
When sending images from the current page to AirTable what is been sent to the API is the url of the image.
For a screenshot, after the image is created it should be saved somewhere and then sent the new url to AirTable.
It would be amazing but I would need a server to store the image at least temporarily.
What might make this more efficient would be to use Google Drive for this — let users choose a google drive folder to upload the screenshot to first. Airtable can grab it from there? @Borja_Morales lmk thoughts. This would be amazing and so useful!
I have published an extension in Chrome store, still very early version. And with no schema discovery the configuration is a little bit odd.
Take a look and give me your thoughts.
Hi I would love to use the extension . It seems really cool and I need in Airtable to bring articles from internet . but I have no knowledge on coding etc … I Tried to follow some of your explanations in order to setup the extension without success!
Is there any chance you can help me with the detailed steps setting up the extension on chrome ? For now when I click on the extension I get a black space with the word “form” and 3 lines On the right side !!
Thank you so much
Hi I would love to use the extension . It seems really cool and I need in Airtable to bring articles from internet . but I have no knowledge on coding etc … I Tried to follow some of your explanations in order to setup the extension without success!
Is there any chance you can help me with the detailed steps setting up the extension on chrome ? For now when I click on the extension I get a black space with the word “form” and 3 lines On the right side !!
Thank you so much
Hi,
There are two things required to use the extension:
First in the extension options the API Key must be set, the API key for your account can be found in https://airtable.com/account
Second. A input form must be set for a certain table. The easiest way is to open the table in the browser and click in the extension button, it should then create a configuration settings for the current table. Click save and it will be saved in the extension options.
Let me know if you need more help.
could you give me more details: i have the API and?
creating a form on airtable chrome? would you have an example? I know I am asking a klot, but could you give me more details: i am really bad in computer science or anything like this!
could you give me more details: i have the API and?
creating a form on airtable chrome? would you have an example? I know I am asking a klot, but could you give me more details: i am really bad in computer science or anything like this!
Hi,
I am working in a way to make the configuration easier, a leave all the coding thing for the “advanced” mode.
I’d like to release 2.1 during this week.
Hi, I did create a Chrome Extension for sending links to an AirTable DB. I was researching to buy a new TV Box and used it to store all the models I saw while browsing.
The behaviour is as follows:
The extension has to be configured with the DB Api url and API Key. I haven’t found any way of auto discovery for this.
Clicking in the extension button will create a new record in the DB with the information:
- Url for the current site.
- Title of the current site
- A thumbnail with the biggest image it can be found in the site.
So the DB is requried to have this 3 columns in order for the extension to work.
In the other hand while browsing, the extension would compare all the links in the current site with the urls stored in the DB. For the ones found it will create put a sticky note indicating that that url is already in the DB.
I have the extension locally, I can submit it to to the chrome store if anyone find it useful.
Pls send us the link to your chrome extension page.
Hi I would love to use the extension . It seems really cool and I need in Airtable to bring articles from internet . but I have no knowledge on coding etc … I Tried to follow some of your explanations in order to setup the extension without success!
Is there any chance you can help me with the detailed steps setting up the extension on chrome ? For now when I click on the extension I get a black space with the word “form” and 3 lines On the right side !!
Thank you so much
I also need help getting this extension to work.
We’ve definitely been thinking about something like this, and there are a lot of different potential directions in which an Airtable browser extension could go.
If there were an Add to Airtable extension, how do you think you would use it? Would you be using it to save interesting internet articles to read later, to bookmark recipes, to do academic research, etc., or something else? How would you envision it looking? Would you want it to function pretty similar to the Add to Trello extension (in which the web page you’re on gets added as a record to a table in a base)? Or would you want something more like Pinterest, in which you can clip images to save them for later?
Hi!
I would use the extension to auto-populate fields that I have in certain bases. For example, I have a job-search base. A “Send-to-Airtable”/“Add-to-Airtable” extension would cut down on manual data entry.
Also, if that app/extension/functionality could be extended to mobile as well, that would really help. I live in a major city and there’s internet service on our subways. Sometimes I do job search related stuff on my commute, so having the full functionality would be super helpful.
For anyone else stumbling upon this thread, we launched a Chrome extension a few months ago: https://try.airtable.com/web-clipper
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