Re: Capture from Firefox to Org-mode

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:

> How to capture data from a web page to Org-mode ?
>
> * What I need
>
> I want to be able to capture different kind of information :
>
> - Article, to read later
>
> - Book, with all its metadata (title, author, subject, etc)
>
> - Magazin, to buy later (title, editor, price, etc)
>
> - IRL event, that I want to go
>
>
> For each case, different kind of data is needed to be extracted from the
> web page and passed to Org-capture.

I wrote https://github.com/yantar92/org-capture-ref to do exactly
this. 

> * Capture Protocol
>
> I know it exist an org-protocol for capture, but after reading the
> manual (section 17.16.2 The capture protocol), there is something
> I did not understand.
>
> On the URL of the capture protocol, key value pairs can be specified.
> But are they a predefined set of keys, independent to the capture
> template, or are they related to the capture template special words (ex:
> %a) ?
>
> Is it possible, with Org-protocol, to pass data to be stored into org entry
> properties, or an arbitrary string ?

Yes, but passing non-standard data is an undocumented feature. (It is
stored in :query property that you may need to extract via
%(plist-get (org-capture-get :query) :my-keyword) placeholder or
something similar.

> I have seen a typo in the manual "17.16.2 The capture protocol":
> https://orgmode.org/manual/The-capture-protocol.html
>
> At the end of the first phrase, it miss a space between the "a" and
> "capture". Instead of "a capture", we have "acapture".

This has been already fixed in de775a36d, but thanks for the heads-up anyway.

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