Wanderlog Notes Clipper is a Manifest V3 Chrome extension that saves places, selected travel notes, and bulk destination lists directly into your Wanderlog trips — no copy-pasting required.
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- Save places from any webpage into Wanderlog's authenticated save panel.
- Turn highlighted travel advice into editable trip notes with source attribution.
- Paste destination lists, clean duplicates, preview matches, and send them to a selected trip.
- Reuse your existing Wanderlog browser session; the extension never asks for or stores your password.
- Keep Copy fallbacks available when Wanderlog's private web API changes.
- Direct trip write — select a trip from a pre-populated dropdown and send notes or places straight into Wanderlog without leaving the page.
- Save a place by opening Wanderlog's authenticated save/search panel for the active tab.
- Add a destination by resolving highlighted text through Wanderlog geo autocomplete, then opening Wanderlog's trip creation flow with the destination pre-selected.
- Clip selected text — right-click any highlighted travel text, review and edit the note, choose a note type and target, then send it directly to a trip or copy it for a manual paste.
- Bulk destination importer — paste a list of places (one per line), preview the cleaned entries, optionally check Wanderlog geo matches, then send them all to a trip in one click.
- Recent activity log — quick local recall of sent notes, imports, and place searches.
- Download and unzip the latest release asset from GitHub Releases.
- Open
chrome://extensions. - Turn on Developer mode.
- Click Load unpacked.
- Select the unzipped extension folder.
Most extension features work immediately after install. Sending notes or places directly into a Wanderlog trip requires one extra step: open app.wanderlog.com and navigate to any trip before using the Send to Wanderlog button.
| Feature | Requires visiting app.wanderlog.com |
|---|---|
| Save a place (panel / map) | No |
| Add as destination | No |
| Clip text → Copy note | No |
| Bulk import → Copy list | No |
| Clip text → Send to Wanderlog | Yes — once per session |
| Bulk import → Send to Wanderlog | Yes — once per session |
Once you have visited a Wanderlog trip page, the extension caches your trip list. It stays fresh for 10 minutes and is repopulated automatically each time you browse Wanderlog. Use the Reload button in the popup if the list looks stale.
After visiting app.wanderlog.com, the popup pre-populates the trip selector automatically. Pick a trip and send.
For a selected-text note:
- Highlight travel advice or a useful detail on any webpage.
- Right-click and choose Save selected text to Wanderlog.
- Review and edit the note in the popup.
- Choose a note type and optional target label.
- The trip selector is already populated — pick a trip and click Send to Wanderlog.
- Use Copy note if you prefer to paste it into Wanderlog manually.
For a bulk destination list:
- Paste one destination per line into Bulk destination importer.
- The preview and usable-count pill update as you type, stripping bullets, numbering, and duplicates automatically.
- Optionally click Check matches to verify Wanderlog geo coverage before sending.
- Pick a trip from the pre-populated dropdown.
- Click Send to Wanderlog — all previewed places are added to that trip's places directly.
- Use Copy list if you prefer to paste the destinations into Wanderlog manually.
Wanderlog does not publish a write API. This extension discovers Wanderlog's internal API by running a page-context bridge on app.wanderlog.com that observes the fetch calls the Wanderlog web app makes as you browse. Discovered endpoint patterns are stored locally and reused for subsequent writes.
When you click Send to Wanderlog, the extension routes the request through that content script, which makes same-origin authenticated calls using the same session Wanderlog already holds. No credentials are stored or transmitted outside your browser.
Trip data is read in four ways, in order: from a local cache populated the last time you browsed Wanderlog, from the live page state visible to the page-context bridge, from trip links in the Wanderlog sidebar DOM, and by proxying a request through an open Wanderlog tab if the cache is stale. If none of those paths succeed, the extension tells you to open Wanderlog first rather than failing silently.
If a write fails (the internal API may change between Wanderlog releases), Copy is always available as a manual fallback.
npm testThe check script validates the Manifest V3 metadata, required files, permissions, host permissions, version alignment, and JavaScript syntax across all extension scripts.
CI runs the same validation on pushes to main and pull requests. The release workflow packages version tags like v0.6.1 into a ZIP and uploads it to GitHub Releases.
The durable release checklist lives in docs/RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md. It covers GitHub About metadata, Apache-2.0 licensing, README visuals, CI/CD validation, release notes, and downloadable ZIP assets.
Apache-2.0. See LICENSE and NOTICE.
This project is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wanderlog.