BasicCrawler
rdrview
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Jupyter Notebook | C | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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BasicCrawler
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Reading from the web offline and distraction-free
Very cool.
The take-any-webpage-offline need is also common in the education space (teachers want to save a webpage and send it to their students as part of a lesson and don't want to worry about availability or ads etc).
I used to work on tools for this https://github.com/learningequality/ricecooker/blob/develop/... and https://github.com/learningequality/BasicCrawler/blob/master...
rdrview
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Mozilla: Readability.js
See also the C port here: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview/
It works well with text-mode browsers like w3m.
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firefox 'naked'
i also use rdrview sometimes.
- Is there a CLI tool to download only the relevant text from an article? A mix of Curl and the tranqulity firefox addon?
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w3m rocks
They both parse untrusted content content without sandboxing.
I typically send content through rdrview[0] before piping through w3m-sandbox[1], which should be pretty safe.
[0]: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/bwrap-scripts/tree/trunk/item/w3m-...
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reader, a minimal command line reader offering better readability of web pages on the CLI
Could have been nice to have this integrated to w3m. Somthing along the lines of rdrview.
- How to apply readability to already saved html pages?
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Reading from the web offline and distraction-free
I do a lot of this work[3] (web to documents) and it's interesting to see other approaches. The medium image problem is something I've faced as well, but never got around to fixing. I'm planning to get a Remarkable soon, so will definitely be trying this out.
My personal solution has been https://github.com/captn3m0/url-to-epub/ (Node/readability), which I've tested against the entirety of Tor's original fiction collection[0] where it performs well enough (I'm biased). Another tool that does this beautifully well is percollate[1], but it doesn't give enough control of the metadata to the user - something I really care about.
I've also started to use rdrview[2], which is a C-port of the current Firefox implementation of "reader view". It is very unix-y, so it is easy to pipe content to it (I usually run it through tidy first). Quite helpful in building web-archiving or web-to-pdf or web-to-kindle pipelines easily.
[0]: https://www.tor.com/category/all-fiction/original-fiction/
[1]: https://github.com/danburzo/percollate
[2]: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[3]: https://captnemo.in/ebooks/
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Show HN: Hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to Browse Hacker News Discussions
Two projects that do this with nearly identical output:
- https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
- https://github.com/go-shiori/go-readability
Pipe the filtered HTML output into your favorite textual web browser for an ideal reading experience.
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Newsboat / w3m show only article data
This may help if you can do some piping around it.. https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2021)
SEEKING WORK | Argentina | Remote
Email: [email protected]
I'm a programmer, most familiar with C on Linux and Win32. I'll be happy to start a project from scratch, or to help support any old codebase. For a sample of my work please see rdrview [1], a small command line tool that found some success here on Hacker News; or [2], a naive filesystem implementation I've been working on.
My current rate is 20 USD/hour. For what it's worth, I have a background in math.
[1] https://github.com/eafer/rdrview
[2] https://github.com/linux-apfs
What are some alternatives?
percollate - A command-line tool to turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB, HTML, or Markdown docs.
parser - 📜 Extract meaningful content from the chaos of a web page
go-readability - Go package that cleans a HTML page for better readability.
hackernews-TUI - A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News
w3m - Debian's w3m: WWW browsable pager
arcan - Arcan - [Display Server, Multimedia Framework, Game Engine] -> "Desktop Engine"
zimit - Make a ZIM file from any Web site and surf offline!
awesome-hackernews - A curated list of FOSS tools to improve the Hacker News experience.
cbsd - Yet one more wrapper around jail, bhyve, QEMU and XEN
jira_clone - A simplified Jira clone built with React/Babel (Client), and Node/TypeScript (API). Auto formatted with Prettier, tested with Cypress.
nb - CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.