3.4.3 Importing Web Pages and URLs

Importing Whole Pages

While in your Web browser, press a capture hotkey, as described in the Ways to Import section.
While in your Web browser, click on one of the EagleFiler bookmarklets in the browser’s toolbar.
Drag and drop URLs onto the source list, records list, Drop Pad, or Dock icon. Hold down the Option key to have EagleFiler show you the options window.
From any application’s Share menu or toolbar button, choose EagleFiler Import. Hold down the Option key to have EagleFiler show you the options window. You can configure a keyboard shortcut in System Settings.
Choose Import URLs… from the File menu and enter the URL of the page.
Choose Import Bookmarks… from the File menu to import all the pages in a bookmarks file (e.g. exported from a browser).
Select a URL in another application and invoke one of EagleFiler’s Services via a menu or keyboard shortcut. Hold down the Option key to have EagleFiler show you the options window.

Run an AppleScript such as:

tell application "EagleFiler"
    import URLs {"http://www.apple.com", "http://c-command.com"}
end tell

The Web page format preference lets you choose whether EagleFiler saves URLs as Web archives, PDF files, bookmarks, etc.

Importing Only Part of a Page

While in your Web browser, select some or all of the page’s text and invoke one of EagleFiler’s Services via the menu or keyboard shortcut. Hold down the Option key to have EagleFiler show you the options window.
Select some text in your Web browser and drag and drop it onto the source list, records list, Drop Pad, or Dock icon. Hold down the Option key to have EagleFiler show you the options window.

Accessing the Source URL

When you’ve imported a Web page, you can see its URL:

In the Info window in EagleFiler or (for PDFs) in Preview.
By showing the Source URL column in the Source List.
Using the Copy Source URL command in the Edit menu.
In the tooltip if you hover the cursor over an item in the Records List.

The source URL can be edited via script.

Private Web Pages

Some Web pages, such as order confirmation pages or account information screens, can only be loaded when you’re logged into the site. EagleFiler cannot share the login session with your browser, so if you’re logged in via Safari you would need to save the page using Safari. There are three ways to do this:

Use the Save PDF to EagleFiler command.
Choose File ‣ Save As in Safari and then choose the Web Archive format and save the file into your library’s the To Import folder or the Files folder.
Select some or all of the page’s text and invoke one of EagleFiler’s Services.

Similar techniques work in other Web browsers.

Videos

EagleFiler is designed to import Web pages and other directly downloadable URLs. To import streaming video, we recommend these tools:

Processing Web Pages

Before saving from a Web browser into the To Import folder or the Files folder, you can reformat the page using a JavaScript bookmarklet such as Readability.

You can also set EagleFiler to automatically process every Web page that it downloads. For example, to process every page using the discontinued Instapaper text processor, you could have entered this command in Terminal:

defaults write com.c-command.EagleFiler WebToolURLProcessingPrefix 'https://www.instapaper.com/text?u='

To turn off processing, enter this command in Terminal:

defaults delete com.c-command.EagleFiler WebToolURLProcessingPrefix

Importing Without JavaScript

EagleFiler normally enables JavaScript when importing Web pages so that it archives the page as it would be displayed in your browser. However, some sites use JavaScript in a way that makes the page content not fully load if there is no user interaction. Others use it to display advertisements that can make your archived pages much larger than their actual content. And sometimes JavaScript triggers an OS bug that makes the import hang.

EagleFiler has an advanced setting that lets you disable JavaScript for certain domains where you find it to be a problem. To set the non-JavaScript domains, enter a command like this in Terminal:

defaults write com.c-command.EagleFiler WebToolNonJavaScriptDomains -array discourse.omnigroup.com meta.discourse.org forums.swift.org

Note that disabling JavaScript will also prevent some non-advertisement content from loading, such as comments from Disqus. You may or may not find this desirable.

To re-enable JavaScript for all domains, enter this command in Terminal:

defaults delete com.c-command.EagleFiler WebToolNonJavaScriptDomains

To disable JavaScript for all domains, see EnableJavaScriptForWebTool in the esoteric preferences.

Always Importing as RTF

macOS does not save some Web sites, such as Twitter, to PDF as expected. It may only save the first page. This happens both in Safari and in EagleFiler. To work around this issue, EagleFiler lets you override the Web page format to always use RTF format for certain sites. To use this feature, enter a command like this in Terminal:

defaults write com.c-command.EagleFiler WebToolRTFDomains -array twitter.com mobile.twitter.com