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Org Web Capture v0.3.0

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A helper for capturing web pages via org-protocol in emacs

1 Org Web Capture Extension
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This is an extension for Firefox (tm) and eventually Chromium (tm)
which adds a "Capture" button, sending the site address, title, and
selected text (if any) to emacs via org-protocol.

In case it's a meetup.com event page I will perform an additional API
call to meetup.com and get the event details.


2 Detailed setup instructions
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2.1 Install the extension
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Install from addons.mozilla.org website


2.2 Set up org-protocol
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The gist of it is to make your system recognize emacsclient as the
handler of `org-protocol://' links. In addition, one needs to set up
emacs to load org-protocol and to set up capture templates.


2.2.1 Register emacsclient as the ```org-protocol``` handler
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◊ 2.2.1.1 Under Linux (non-KDE)


cat > "${HOME}/.local/share/applications/org-protocol.desktop" << EOF
[Desktop Entry]
Name=org-protocol
Exec=emacsclient %u
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=System;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/org-protocol;
EOF


And then


update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/



2.2.2 Configure Emacs
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◊ 2.2.2.1 Init file


(server-start)
(require 'org-protocol)



◊ 2.2.2.2 Capture templates


("p" "Web site" entry (file+headline (lambda () (concat org-directory "/webnotes.org")) "Inbox")
"* %a\nCaptured On: %U\nWebsite: %l\n\n%i\n%?")

("m" "meetup" entry (file "~/nextcloud/caldav.org") "* %?%:description \n%i\n%l")



3 License
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3.1 This is a fork of [https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension]
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This repository is licensed as MIT license, see the LICENSE file for
details.