use case
- Place files that cannot be published for copyright or other reasons (articles, cut and scanned books) in Dropbox, etc.
- Write a link to it in Scrapbox.
- Write comments, etc. on the file.
- I want to open a link with one click, others should not.
Mounting plan 1
- Set the key to the extension.
- If you write
[secret URL], the extension encrypts the URL part and writes it to Scrapbox. - Third parties viewing the public project cannot follow the link because it is encrypted.
- When displayed, that URL portion is decrypted, and the user who has the extension can use it as if it were just a link.
- If I put it in the UserScript, the decryption key will be exposed, no?
- Can I use localStorage?
Mounting plan 2
- I didn’t want to have a separate database, so I was thinking of having all the information to decrypt the original URL in the URL section.
- But wait, what?
- You can get row data at
https://scrapbox.io/api/pages/<privateProj>/<pageName>. - You could write a correspondence table in Private Project.
visually pleasing design
[link to secret description page? Information for restoring original URL]- People who don’t have the extension can also understand that it’s a link they can’t follow because they don’t have the extension.
Input Method Proposal
- Copy the URL, convert it in Automator and paste it
- Confidential information does not get out.
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