The Collector

Most screenshot extensions do one thing: take a screenshot. THE Collector does two things that always belong together — and does both better than tools built to do only one.
Capture any full page. Collect and clean every link. All local, all private.

Two modes. One popup. One workflow.
When you research something on the web, you capture screenshots and you collect URLs. You've always needed two separate tools for that — a screenshotter and a tab manager or bookmarker. THE Collector unifies both in a single, lightweight popup. Switch between Capture and URLs with one click.

Full-Page Screenshot Capture — engineered, not patched
Most screenshot extensions scroll the page once and stitch what they see. THE Collector uses a tile-by-tile capture engine with built-in retry and backoff, so it handles long pages, slow-loading content, and edge cases that break simpler tools:

Tile-by-tile rendering — captures the page in segments and stitches them with precision. No single-pass scroll artifacts.
Fixed/sticky element suppression — sticky headers and floating nav bars are hidden during capture so they don't stamp themselves across every section of your screenshot.
Smart target detection — automatically detects whether to scroll the page, a dominant iframe, or a nested scroll container. Works correctly on SPAs, documentation sites, dashboards, and complex layouts.
Quota-aware throttling with retry — if the browser slows down or hits a resource limit, the capture retries with backoff rather than failing silently. No more blank tiles or broken exports.
Per-tab capture lock — prevents two captures from interfering if you trigger one from the toolbar shortcut while one is already running.
Oversized page handling — when a page is too tall for a single canvas, THE Collector falls back gracefully with split-aware preview and export behavior instead of crashing.
Capture diagnostics — the History view shows "why slow" hints for each past capture (slow duration, retries, oversized fallback), so you understand what happened rather than guessing.

Keyboard shortcut: Alt+Shift+P

After capture: a full editing and export suite

Preview with click-to-zoom
Editing tools: Crop · Blur · Highlight · Text · Rectangle · Emoji markers · URL/timestamp stamp
Visual Diff mode — compare any two captures from History side by side. Added areas highlight green, removed areas highlight red. Useful for tracking page changes over time.
Export formats: PNG · JPG · PDF (Auto, A4, Letter)
Smart PDF splitting — for A4 and Letter exports, a heuristic break-detection algorithm finds natural page break points rather than slicing through text or images mid-content.
One-click export presets: Email (JPG + opens mail draft) · Docs (clipboard copy sized for Google Docs) · PDF Auto

URL Collection — the feature that sets this apart
This is where THE Collector separates itself from every other screenshotter in the store.
Most people collecting URLs are doing it for research, auditing, sharing, or archiving. Those use cases demand clean URLs — not the tracking-laden strings that most copy-paste workflows produce.
The URL tab gives you:

Add current tab or add all tabs from your current window in one click
Automatic tracking parameter removal — UTM tags, fbclid, gclid, utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, and similar tracking noise are stripped before the URL is saved. What you get is the real destination, not the marketing redirect.
URL deduplication — normalized comparison means example.com/page and example.com/page?ref=twitter won't both appear in your list.
Export as TXT, CSV, or Email draft — send a clean list of references to yourself or a colleague in seconds.
Copy all to clipboard with one button
Restore — a single-step undo snapshot lets you recover a cleared list if you delete it by accident.
URL Collection History — past URL lists are saved as snapshots you can browse, restore, copy, or export later.

This is the URL collector that researchers, developers, content strategists, and UX reviewers have been missing.

100% private. Zero cloud.
Every screenshot and every URL stays in extension-local storage on your device. There is no backend. No upload pipeline. No account. No server ever sees your data.

Captures live in IndexedDB, on your machine only
Deleting from History removes the data completely
Uninstalling the extension clears all stored data per browser behavior
No telemetry leaves your device

Works on Chrome and Edge
Built on Manifest V3. Tested on both Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

History & Management

Filter captures by domain, date range, or export type (PNG / JPG / PDF)
Single-delete or clear-all with confirmation
Inline failure notes when a capture didn't complete, with a dismiss control
"Why slow" diagnostics so you understand retries and fallback behavior

Permissions — and why each one is needed
THE Collector uses the minimum permissions required for its features to work. A plain-English explanation of every permission is available inside the Options page.

activeTab — access the current tab during a capture
tabs — read the active window's tabs for "Add all tabs" and open History/Preview pages
scripting — inject the capture logic into the target tab
storage — save your URL list and settings
offscreen — stitch capture tiles off-screen without blocking the browser UI
unlimitedStorage — store large screenshot history reliably without hitting default quota limits
downloads (optional) — only requested if you enable it in Settings; used only for explicit export downloads

Who uses THE Collector

Researchers and analysts who need to archive pages as screenshots and share clean reference URLs
Developers and QA engineers who compare page states over time with Visual Diff
Content strategists and UX reviewers capturing competitor pages and collecting site links for audits
Anyone tired of tracking URLs polluting their bookmarks, notes, and shared docs

Version 1.5.0 · Chrome + Edge · Manifest V3 · No account required · No data leaves your device