HarvestPlugin

Download and archive resources from the web

This plugin can be used to download and archive external resource, like images or pdfs. It expects an url, analyzes it and offers a menu of links to all resources reachable from that page.

Upon selection it, download and attach all resources to the current topic for local use.

You'll enter the harvest process using the harvestplugin template like this

https://middleforkhome.us/System/HarvestPlugin?template=harvestplugin

This plugin is best integrated in NatSkin's menu concept. For now, you'll have to modify your local PatternSkin to add this tool to your site.

Screenshots

Installation Instructions

You do not need to install anything in the browser to use this extension. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the extension on the server.

Open configure, and open the "Extensions" section. "Extensions Operation and Maintenance" Tab → "Install, Update or Remove extensions" Tab. Click the "Search for Extensions" button. Enter part of the extension name or description and press search. Select the desired extension(s) and click install. If an extension is already installed, it will not show up in the search results.

You can also install from the shell by running the extension installer as the web server user: (Be sure to run as the webserver user, not as root!)

cd /path/to/foswiki
perl tools/extension_installer <NameOfExtension> install

If you have any problems, or if the extension isn't available in configure, then you can still install manually from the command-line. See https://foswiki.org/Support/ManuallyInstallingExtensions for more help.

Dependencies

Name	Version	Description
Foswiki::Contrib::CacheContrib	>=0	Required.
Foswiki::Contrib::JsonRpcContrib	>=2.23	Required.
Foswiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin	>=6.00	Required.
Foswiki::Plugins::MimeIconPlugin	>=1.1	Required.

Change History

21 Oct 2020	reworked caching to use CacheContrib
12 Nov 2019	added strikeone protection to harvest UI; allow to download svgs as well; harvest image sets as required
11 Jun 2018	added proper support for PROXY / NOPROXY network settings in Foswiki
02 Sep 2016	oo-ify core of plugin; work around broken mime types for images, fix encoding problems and make it work with newer JsonRpcContrib
12 Jan 2015	sort results returned from external web page
16 Dec 2014	ignore ssl certificate problems when downloading stuff
29 Sep 2014	replaced deprecated jquery.tmpl with jsrendr
03 Sep 2014	fixed corruption of downloaded files
04 Apr 2014	flag rest handlers that don't require authentication
12 Dec 2013	first dot.oh release