Context Menu

Run a workflow from the browser’s right-click menu, with details of what you clicked.

Try it

workflow · save-page-to-airtable.awf 3 steps

Save Page to Airtable Reading List: a workflow with 3 steps, starting with Right-click a page and ending with Add a record to Airtable.

1. 1 Right-click a page(Context Menu — open its doc page) Context Menu
2. 2 Read the page details(Get Page Metadata — open its doc page) Get Page Metadata
3. 3 Add a record to Airtable(AirTable — open its doc page) AirTable

Open in AWFlow Copy .awf

What it does

An activated workflow with a Context Menu trigger shows up in the right-click menu under Agentic Workflow, then Personal Workflows (or Downloaded Workflows for ones you installed from the marketplace). The menu entry is the workflow’s name.

The entry only appears where it fits: on the kinds of content picked in Menu Contexts, and, when you set them, only on matching pages (Document URL Patterns) or matching links and media (Target URL Patterns). Clicking it runs the workflow from this trigger, with the clicked text, link or image and the page details as output.

A workflow can have several Context Menu triggers with different settings, for example one for selected text and one for links. Only the triggers that match what you clicked run.

When to use it

• Act on selected text: translate it, summarize it, save it, or send it to a chat.
• Act on a link: save it to a list or open it somewhere else.
• Act on an image: download it or send its address to a service.
• Run a workflow on the current page without opening AWFlow.

Inputs and settings

Setting	Type	What it does
Menu Contexts	Multiple choice	Options: Page, Selection, Link, Editable Field, Image, Video, Audio. Default: Page
Document URL Patterns	List	Optional browser match patterns for the page URL.
Target URL Patterns	List	Optional browser match patterns for link, image, video, or audio targets.

• Menu Contexts decides where you right-click. Page means a right-click on the page itself, Selection a right-click on selected text, Editable Field inside a text box, and so on.
• Document URL Patterns limits the entry to pages whose address matches, for example https://*.wikipedia.org/*. Leave it empty to show it everywhere.
• Target URL Patterns checks the address of the clicked link, image, video or audio instead, for example https://*.youtube.com/* to only offer the entry on YouTube links.

Patterns use the form scheme://host/path with * as a wildcard; see Page Load for examples.

Outputs

• Output

Each output item has these fields:

Field	Type	What it holds
triggerType	Always "contextMenu"
triggeredAt	Text
pageUrl	Text
selectionText	Text
linkUrl	Text
srcUrl	Text
frameUrl	Text
editable	True/false
mediaType	Text
tabId	Number
windowId	Number
tabUrl	Text
tabTitle	Text

Shape of an output item

{
  "triggerType": "contextMenu",
  "triggeredAt": "…",
  "pageUrl": "…",
  "selectionText": "…",
  "linkUrl": "…",
  "srcUrl": "…",
  "frameUrl": "…",
  "editable": true,
  "mediaType": "…",
  "tabId": 0,
  "windowId": 0,
  "tabUrl": "…",
  "tabTitle": "…"
}

Which fields are filled depends on what you clicked:

• selectionText: the selected text (Selection).
• linkUrl: the address of the clicked link (Link).
• srcUrl and mediaType: the address and type (image, video, audio) of the clicked media.
• editable: true when you clicked inside a text field.
• pageUrl, tabTitle, tabId: the page and tab you were on.

Use them downstream, for example {{ $input.selectionText }}.

Dependencies and credentials

None. This node needs no connection and has no slots for other nodes.

Example workflow

Summarize selected text on any page:

1. Add Context Menu with Menu Contexts set to Selection.
2. Add Summarize with Text {{ $input.selectionText }} and Length Short.
3. Add Browser Notification with Title Summary and Message {{ $input.summary }}.
4. Activate the workflow, select a paragraph on a page, right-click, and choose the workflow’s name.

Common issues

• The workflow is not in the right-click menu. Activate the workflow, then right-click and choose Get / Refresh Workflows so the menu picks up your changes. Also check that you right-clicked on the right kind of content: with only Page selected, the entry does not show on selected text or links.
• The entry shows, but clicking it does nothing. What you clicked did not match this trigger’s contexts or patterns (the menu can show the entry more broadly than each trigger allows when a workflow has several Context Menu triggers). Check Menu Contexts and both pattern lists.
• selectionText is empty. Selection is not in Menu Contexts, or you right-clicked outside the selected text.
• It does not work in the web app. This node runs in the browser extension; install it and activate the workflow there.

Recipes with this node

Save the page you're on to an Airtable reading list beginner · 5 min Needs a connection Turn highlighted text into a Todoist task beginner · 6 min Needs a connection Explain any highlighted text in plain words beginner · 4 min On-device Rewrite rough text in a professional tone beginner · 4 min On-device

Related nodes

• Hotkey: run from a keyboard shortcut instead.
• Get Selected Text: read the selection from a workflow started another way.
• Funnel: share the same steps between a Context Menu and other triggers.