wallabag/docs/en/Developer/write_config_files.rst

Write config files

wallabag can use specific site config files to parse website articles. These files are stored in the `inc/3rdparty/site_config/standard <https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/tree/master/inc/3rdparty/site_config/standard>`__ folder.

The format used for these files is XPath. Look at some examples in the folder.

Automatic config files generation

Fivefilters has created a very useful tool to create config files. You just type in the adress of the article to work on with, and you select the area containing the content you want.

siteconfig

You should confirm this area by trying with other articles.
When you got the right area, just click on *Download Full-Text RSS

site config* to download your file.

Manual config file generation

If Fivefilters tool doesn't work correctly, take a look at the source (Ctrl + U on Firefox and Chromium). Search for your content and get the class or the id attribute of the area containing what you want.

Once you've got the id or class, you can write for example one or another of these lines:

body: //div[@class='myclass']
body: //div[@id='myid']

Then, test you file. If you got the right content but you want to strip unnecessary parts, do:

strip: //div[@class='hidden']

You can look at other options for siteconfig files here.