Import Are.na channels into Eagle — and keep them in sync. Link a channel once, then re-sync any time to pull in only the blocks you don't already have. Built for designers who collect on Are.na and organize in Eagle.
Are.na is where a lot of design reference gets collected; Eagle is where it gets organized — tagged, searchable, offline, next to the rest of your library. Moving between them has always been manual, one image at a time. This bridges them: a channel becomes an Eagle folder, and stays current with a click.
- Link a channel by pasting its URL or slug. Image blocks import into an Eagle folder of the same name.
- Sync, don't re-import. Re-syncing a linked channel imports only new blocks — nothing is duplicated, ever, even across reinstalls.
- Ordering preserved. Each item's date added is stamped to when the block was connected on Are.na, so Eagle's sort mirrors the channel.
- Provenance kept. Every item carries the block's source URL, a back-link to its Are.na permalink, and the channel slug as a tag.
- Private channels work too — add an Are.na personal access token in settings (stored locally on your machine, sent only to api.are.na).
Dedup is derived statelessly from your library, not a cache that can drift. Each imported item carries an arena:<blockId> tag — a structured, collision-proof key. On every sync the plugin reads the destination folder's existing tags and imports only the blocks that aren't there yet. Lose the plugin's settings, reinstall, move the folder — dedup still holds, because the truth lives on the items themselves. The channel→folder registry in localStorage is pure convenience; if it's gone, you just re-link and nothing re-imports.
From the Eagle Plugin Center (recommended, once published): search "Are.na" in Eagle's Plugin Center and install.
From source (now):
- Download or clone this repo.
- In Eagle, open the Plugin panel (press
P) → Developer → Import Local Project. - Point it at this folder, run it, paste a channel, hit Link.
Create a personal access token at dev.are.na → paste it into the plugin's Settings (⚙). It's stored only in local storage on your machine and used solely to read channels you have access to.
Eagle 4.0 build18+ (the plugin sets each item's import time to preserve ordering).
manifest.json plugin metadata (window plugin, i18n)
index.html UI shell
css/style.css theme-aware styling (follows Eagle light/dark)
js/arena.js Are.na v3 API client
js/sync.js Eagle-side import + stateless dedup
js/store.js link registry (localStorage, per-library)
js/app.js UI controller
_locales/ en, zh_CN, zh_TW, ja_JP, ko_KR
Right-click the plugin in Eagle's Plugin panel → Pack Plugin → export .eagleplugin, then submit at the Eagle Plugin Center.
Issues and PRs welcome — especially locale fixes and edge cases in odd channel/block shapes.
MIT © mwdwrd