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Mendeley Web Importer

by Mendeley

v3.3.43 Updated Feb 2, 2026 825KiB
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Description

When viewing an article or a list of references in the browser, click the Mendeley Web Importer icon in the toolbar. The extension will analyse the page and retrieve metadata like title, authors, etc. and PDF full texts (where available) for you to add to your Mendeley library. Get a Mendeley account at https://www.mendeley.com/ where you can save, read and cite the articles you import with the extension. You will also receive 2GB of free storage space.
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Reviews (200 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-09
Aaradhya Gupta

not working when added to chrome

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-07
전찬욱

SLOW

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-30
Domiziana Pauletto

doesnt work anymoreeeee

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-23
Kimia Sinaeian

Very slow, horrible.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-22
Yiqiu Su

cannot use, cannot login in. buggy extensions!

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-16
Dietrich von Zorger

Completely needles complication of workflow

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-12
Zephyr Solabella

It is really surprising that this would be so GD shiddy.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-15
Kanav Arora

Doesn't seem to work at all anymore

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-24
Mihail Mishevskiy

Do not work in Chrome

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-22
Thomas Briggs

This extention does literally nothing.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-13
Kevinilo Perez Marquez

still signing in after 6 days.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-05
Josh Bikai

This has to be a Troll

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-23
Rhys Challacombe

How can you review something that doesn't work well enough to allow you to review it? I click on the extension from Chrome, a fresh install, and nothing happens. No menu, no options, no luck.

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-19
Waliullah Ullash

Very annoying extension. A pure bulllshit.

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-05
Sergi Zapater Villar

The app is not working and no error message is shown. Only a endless loading symbol.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-03
Felipe

A lot of bugs and sometime impossible to login, saddly forcing to update from the old and stable version...

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-10
Timilehin Ayinde

doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-07
Robi Österlund

Very poor

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-04
Hariz Jaafar

very buggy and not accurate

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-03
Jonathan Cerna

VERY buggy. Rarely works.

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-03
Hilla Jakoby

Stopped working approx. two years ago. It's a shame since before it worked perfectly.

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-31
Balqis Hfzl

Bro i swear to you, please please PLEASEE FIX YOUR EXTENSION. I NEED TO USE IT FOR MY REPORT. It takes a millennia to load or not even detect a page at all. Why make such an extension if you guys are too lazy to make it WORK.

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-30
rajeev kumar

its not working in my mac PC, with crome extension or safari

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-29
Benjamin Kaercher

Simply doesn't work, and hasn't worked for the last four years.

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-24
Pravesh Kushwaha

its not working

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-22
chathumali lankeshwara

its not working

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-14
Showry Peng

not working

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-07
Sabrina Albet

has stopped working months ago, I remove from Chrome

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-31
Natalie Holroyd

It doesn't download PDFs, it take forever to load, it automatically signs me in to my institutional login every time I login to a Elsevier journal, booting me out of my personal account (I have to clear my cookies in order to log back in to my proper account with all my old references and notes every. single. time.). How can it be this bugged?

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-16
Guillermo Oviedo

A month ago or more, it stopped importing PDF files. Now, Mendeley Web Importer is no longer able to import any information. Since they switched to Mendeley Reference Manager and their cloud system, the quality has been getting worse and worse! I can't give them zero stars, but they deserve it. I hope they improve or we will all migrate to Zotero or other systems.

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-14
Zecento

Doesn't work. If it helps, I'm now using this good alternative Mendeley Referencer: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mendeley-referencer/ebiepbbkmobnjbjoipacaafpmhkfbjhb?hl=en

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-12
Alistair Ridyard

Has not worked for uploading PDFs, its best function, in weeks. A fix is urgently needed as what is the point in having a reference manager if it doesn't have the PDFs?!?

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-10
Hubert Zając

doesn't download pdfs

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-09
Oleh Feia

If I could choose 0 stars, I would do it. Totally wasted. Terrible plugin. It log-ins for 1000 years (in good case!). I don't really know how Elsevier, big company, created so terrible program. Web importer even worse than Mendeley, which works in 50% of times I need it (maybe less). I want to work on my document, and not spend hours checking what's wrong with Mendeley.

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-02
Daniiba

working alternative https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/mendeley-referencer/ebiepbbkmobnjbjoipacaafpmhkfbjhb

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-29
Afiq Syazwan

Sometimes not working

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-29
Natasha Mawuntu

not working

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-28
Roselidah Akinyi

This extension is not working.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-28
Vespula Germánica

zzz

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-27
Isaac Opio

Not working. Keeps going off

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-27
Radim Sarlej

Not functional.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-27
Mikuláš Vlk

Unstable. Not functional.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-26
Chloe Stanley

This extension is always breaking, signing me out to the point it wont sign back in, not loading at all or saying its added a reference and it hasn't. I am 3 years into it and the fixes have never been made. If I wasnt this far down the line I would use another importer and reference software. I do not recommend.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-26
Stalin Chávez

I can't add a document pdf!!

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-25
Vanessa Ramirez

Please fix it, it is a nightmare.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-25
Chloe Finn

Doesn't work. Absolute nightmare experience honestly just going to have to convert to another software it's beyond infuriating will not load no matter how many times you download, uninstall, clear history, cookies, cache EVERYTHING

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-25
George Dano

dysfunctional extension

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-25
Lizzy Silvermetz

This was great when it worked but now the web importer is not working. I hope they are going to fix it- it's a fabulous function!!

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-24
ShahiD Ali

Not working

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-21
Matt Fadul

not functional

Permissions (4)

Permissions

notifications Can show desktop notifications scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser webRequest Can observe and analyze network traffic

Details

Version 3.3.43
Updated Feb 2, 2026
Size 825KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026