Upgrade StorageWould be nice to edit DOM before capture ala Scrapbook
One of the nice features of scrapbook, as a page capture tool is the ability to edit the dom, cutting out lots of flash ads and things before capture.
Ideally it would be nice to be able to select areas of the page and capture those, while leaving format preserving spaces on the rest of the page. Case in point capture any page from the NYT or WaPo, every story has the same layout per paper. Being able to create a template of exclusion per webiste would allow the capture feature to automatically purge the side and top ads, as well as the menu bars, side bars etc, that are not needed.
Ideally it would be nice to be able to select areas of the page and capture those, while leaving format preserving spaces on the rest of the page. Case in point capture any page from the NYT or WaPo, every story has the same layout per paper. Being able to create a template of exclusion per webiste would allow the capture feature to automatically purge the side and top ads, as well as the menu bars, side bars etc, that are not needed.
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For this to work, you have to have the pre-editing icon enabled in Scrapbook (on right side of status bar).
Click on the Scrapbook icon in the status bar, select "Edit before capture". Then use the DOM eraser as you like, and finally click the DOM button again. The website still retains your changes, don't close it, or do anything else to it.
Now you open Zotaro and take a snapshot of the edited website. You now have a clean snapshot without any pesky ads! The erased parts are not just hidden. They are not present in the snapshot data, as you will see when you open the snapshot's files.