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Mozilla Firefox (desktop)

  1. Go to extension page and click "Add to Firefox".

  1. Firefox will ask whether you agree with permissions you grant to the extension.
    Extension requires this permission: "Access your data for all websites". This permission is required for the extension in order to be able to add [Save] links to dictionary websites. Since the list of sites is set dynamically from a config file, the extension requires this permission for "all websites" rather that for some specific ones.
    Accept the dialog by clicking "Add".

  1. Go to Settings -> Add-ons.

  1. On Vocabulary to Google Sheet add-on click on ... button and then click Preferences.

  1. You will see the extension preferences dialog (see the screenshot below). Also a new window will be opened, where you'll be asked to log in to your Google account. If it hasn't opened, try clicking on a Spreadsheet selection dropdown.

  1. After that you'll need to allow the browser extension to:
  • See information about your Google Drive files.
  • See, edit, create and delete your spreadsheets in Google Drive.

  1. In extension preferences do the following:
  • select a spreadsheet where you want to save sentences (you'll be provided with a list of all the spreadsheets you can edit)
  • select Save URLs checkbox, if you want to save the link to the dictionary page alongside the sentence
  • edit names of sheets if in your Google Sheet they are named differently
  • click Save to save the preferences
  • click Reload site settings to update the sentences parser rules to the latest version (rules might be updated independently from the browser extension in order to quicken possible updates)

  1. Let's check that everything works. Go to Cambridge Dictionary. You should see [Save] links there. Click on the first one.

  1. The dialog will close and you will see that [Save] link became Saved.

  1. Check that the sentence has been added to our Google Sheet:

  1. Congratulations!

Google Chrome (desktop)

  1. Go to extension page and click "Add to Chrome".

  1. Chrome will ask whether you agree with permissions you grant to the extension.
    Extension requires this permission: "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit". This permission is required for the extension in order to be able to add [Save] links to dictionary websites. Since the list of sites is set dynamically from a config file, the extension requires this permission for "all websites" rather that for some specific ones.
    Accept the dialog by clicking "Add extension".

  1. Go to Extensions -> Vocabulary to Google Sheet -> Options.

  1. You will see the extension preferences dialog (see the screenshot below). Also a new window will be opened, where you'll be asked to log in to your Google account. If it hasn't opened, try clicking on a Spreadsheet selection dropdown.

  1. After that you'll need to allow the browser extension to:
  • See information about your Google Drive files.
  • See, edit, create and delete your spreadsheets in Google Drive.
  1. In extension preferences do the following:
  • select a spreadsheet where you want to save sentences (you'll be provided with a list of all the spreadsheets you can edit)
  • select Save URLs checkbox, if you want to save the link to the dictionary page alongside the sentence
  • edit names of sheets if in your Google Sheet they are named differently
  • click Save to save the preferences
  • click Reload site settings to update the sentences parser rules to the latest version (rules might be updated independently from the browser extension in order to quicken possible updates)

  1. Let's check that everything works. Go to Cambridge Dictionary. You should see [Save] links there. Click on the first one.

  1. The dialog will close and you will see that [Save] link became Saved.

  1. Check that the sentence has been added to our Google Sheet:

  1. Congratulations!

Android

  1. Install Kiwi Browser or Yandex Browser if you haven't installed any of them yet.

  2. On your smartphone in Kiwi/Yandex browser go to the extension page and click "Add to Chrome". The browser will ask whether you agree with permissions you grant to the extension. Accept the dialog.

  1. Further steps will be described for Kiwi Browser, but they are similar for any other. Go to Settings -> Extensions.
  1. You will see that you have the extension installed. Click Details
  1. Open Extension options.
  1. The extension preferences dialog will be opened. Also will be opened a Google login dialog. Please log in.

  1. After that you'll need to allow the browser extension to:
  • See information about your Google Drive files.
  • See, edit, create and delete your spreadsheets in Google Drive.

  1. In extension preferences do the following:
  • select a spreadsheet where you want to save sentences (you'll be provided with a list of all the spreadsheets you can edit)
  • select Save URLs checkbox, if you want to save the link to the dictionary page alongside the sentence
  • edit names of sheets if in your Google Sheet they are named differently
  • click Save to save the preferences
  • click Reload site settings to update the sentences parser rules to the latest version (rules might be updated independently from the browser extension in order to quicken possible updates)

  1. Let's check that everything works. Go to Cambridge Dictionary. You should see [Save] links there. Click on the first one.
  1. The dialog will close and you will see that [Save] link became Saved.
  1. Check that the sentence has been added to our Google Sheet:

  1. Congratulations!
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