3.5 Importing Web Pages and URLs

Importing Whole Web Pages

While in your Web browser, press a capture hotkey, as described in the Ways to Import section. There is also special handling when Importing From Safari.
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 Web 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. In Safari, this will import a Web archive that preserves all the formatting and images. Other browsers will import just the text.
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.

Saving Selected Text

You can have EagleFiler import the page and also store the selected text in the note. This can be useful for recording that a certain part of the page is important but also storing the full context in which it appears. To do this, just select the text before you press the capture key. In order for this to work, you may need to enable some extra permissions, as described in Enabling JavaScript Access in Web Browsers.

Accessing the Source URL

Once you’ve imported a Web page, you can see its original 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.