# Add a web link

- Product: Crabwise
- Category: Adding Items
- Type: How-to
- Updated: 2026-10-30
- URL: https://soji.dev/en/crabwise/support/saving/add-web-link/

Add a web page URL to your library. When you add it, you choose how the thumbnail is made and whether to save the article text.

## Add a URL

1. Choose :ui[File] > :ui[Add] > :ui[Web Page]. A popover for the URL appears.
2. In :ui[URL], enter an address that starts with https://.
3. Next to :ui[Thumbnail:], choose :ui[OG Image] or :ui[Screenshot]. :ui[OG Image] uses the image the page provides. If the page has none, a screenshot is used. :ui[Screenshot] uses a picture of the page.
4. To save the article text too, turn on :ui[Save Reader Article]. Once saved, you can read it in Reader without a network connection.
5. Click :ui[Add]. The item is added to your library.

Your choices for :ui[Thumbnail:] and :ui[Save Reader Article] carry over to the next time you add a link. By default, :ui[OG Image] is selected and :ui[Save Reader Article] is on.

When one collection or tag is selected in the sidebar, the item goes into it. When you have :ui[All], :ui[Uncategorized], a smart collection, or similar selected, the item doesn't go into any collection or tag, and it appears in :ui[Uncategorized].

## If the link can't be added

If the address isn't valid, a message appears below the field. If you see :ui[Enter a complete URL, including its scheme.], enter the address again starting with https://.

A link can be added even when its thumbnail or reader article can't be saved. Crabwise keeps retrying the thumbnail on its own. See [A web link's thumbnail doesn't appear](https://soji.dev/en/crabwise/support/troubleshooting/thumbnail-not-loading.md) for thumbnails and [A reader article can't be saved](https://soji.dev/en/crabwise/support/troubleshooting/reader-not-saved.md) for articles.