Can't categorize activities by URLs

Environment

Browser: Firefox 73.0.1 (64-bit) and Google Chrome Version 80.0.3987.122 (Official Build) (64-bit) Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 1909 OS Type: 64-bit

Debug info from plugin

Number of active tabs: 1
Tabs:
{
    "id": 20,
    "index": 0,
    "windowId": 109,
    "highlighted": true,
    "active": true,
    "attention": false,
    "pinned": false,
    "status": "complete",
    "hidden": false,
    "discarded": false,
    "incognito": false,
    "width": 1080,
    "height": 1824,
    "lastAccessed": 1582933480468,
    "audible": false,
    "mutedInfo": {
        "muted": false
    },
    "isArticle": false,
    "isInReaderMode": false,
    "sharingState": {
        "camera": false,
        "microphone": false
    },
    "successorTabId": -1,
    "url": "https://learn.javascript.ru/",
    "title": "Современный учебник JavaScript",
    "favIconUrl": "data:image/png;base64,..."
}

Appnames in the Watcher

The issue

Hi, I use ActivityWatch with Chrome and Firefox extensions. But activities are only tracking by tabnames, not by URL in both browsers. For example, with these settings: or i have no information about activity but if I set like this: my activties appear

[ErikBjare]

@ethanicus I’m afraid this has stalled a bit due to the difficulty in getting the required transforms right.

Right now, the general workaround is to either:

1. not rely on URLs if possible
2. install a browser extension that appends the domain or full URL to the window title (like: this for Firefox, and this for Chrome). That way, you can at least still use URLs for categorization.

I’ve noted that this is getting a bit untenable (and def an understandable source of confusion), so upping the priority a bit.

[ErikBjare]

@yutotakano That’s how it works right now.

The issue is that the url field is not in the events being categorized in the query. What’s needed is something to merge the web events with the window events, like worked on in https://github.com/ActivityWatch/aw-server-rust/pull/179.